Encouragment for writers that I know seemsĀ discouraging at first but I promise itās motivational-
ā¢ Those emotional scenes youāve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you canāt articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesnāt mean itās not impacting the reader.Ā
ā¢ Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasnāt necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now itās gotta go. It doesnāt make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.
ā¢ There are several stories just like yours. And thatās okay, thereās no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your storyĀ āoriginalā is that itās yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.
ā¢ You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But donāt accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Donāt be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things wonāt improve, and thatās not you. Itās going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise youāll like the outcome.
For any writers that need encouragement
I teach writing at a college level. This is all good advice.
This is GREAT advice as a writer who worries about originality a lot, used to dislike writing fight scenes, and hates to kill my darlings (I mean, cut out jokes. I like killing characters).
