How to Write a Good Book
Four things you can do right now to bring your writing to the next level.
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I’ve been writing a long time. I sold my first novel seven years ago, to Penguin, and I’d been writing fiction for close to a decade before then. I’ve been teaching fiction writing for three years.
I’ve come to believe that when someone talks about writing a good book what they mean is writing their story well. If you want to be a writer, I’m confident that you’ve got a good story to tell.
Learning how to write it well, though. That’s a skill and it’s something you can learn, just like you’d learn how to do anything else.
There are a few things that I’ve learned along the way that instantly took my writing to the next level. They made me a better writer and they made my books stronger.