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[bhowardbooks]

Embracing the Beautiful Chaos: Lost Keys, Mysterious Stains, and Imaginary Fires

Step into the whirlwind of my beautifully chaotic life, where even the most organized schedules hilariously veer off track. Join me on a rol

[rwhague]

Writing with your Passions

If you are looking through Twitter or other social media accounts, you will see many agents list certain books as part of their manuscript wish list or #MSWL. There’s even a site dedicated to this collection of things agents want to see. This is quite helpful as you are looking to submit your work. But there is a caution here: don’t write a story just because agents are looking for it. 

Here’s the thing about the publishing world: the books that are submitted today won’t be published for usually two years if not more. And on top of that, it usually take about a year to write a book. So if you go on manuscript wish list today, select a topic and submit it in a year, there’s a good chance the agent whose list hole you were trying to fill was filled by someone else long ago. 

This is the same with following trends and writing about those books. Say you read Twilight and thought--I can write something better than that. One year later, you have your paranormal vampire romance ready to go--but so do three thousand other writers. Now the market is saturated with a novel like yours, and no one wants it. 

The problem with following trends is not just the saturation of the market, however. If you’re writing books solely for the purpose of appeasing an agent, your writing may be lacking the passion that it needs to turn heads. If the writer is not excited about the topic they are writing about, it WILL show in their writing. 

So what do you do with your zombie apocalypse dystopian story that you wrote during your flurry of passion? Because this happens--you grow passionate about a project that is out of trend. Are you just stuck with this novel no one wants?

Don’t look for the nearest waste basket just yet! Hold onto it, because sometimes trends that were out of style come back in five years later. Keep writing, and keep filling the pages with your passion. As you write, your technique will improve. This is a marathon game, not a sprint. Those who don’t give up and hold on until the finish line are the ones who will make it in the end! 

[lucas-marcomini]

This is why I write. Every word holds the potential to inspire, heal, and connect. This is why I write.

[saramackenzie1982]

This too is also correct. We authors spend Mondays plotting how to be rich and famous. #MoneyAndPower #PoorAuthor #WritingPassion #WritingCommunity #Bookstagram #BookTok #CompetitiveMarket #HardWork #LittleReward https://www.instagram.com/p/CgbkMRfOoN-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[julesnight]

[motazhmatar-blog]

New blog post. Website in bio. Read full article. Unwriting a book and the art of saying No! Sometimes you write a book and you feel accomplished. You feel that this book that you always wanted to write. You feel this is best work. Some other times, you finish a book and you decide that you don’t want the world to see it. The latter is what happened with me as I finished writing my third book Al Barzakh. Al Barzakh was a unique idea. Great set up and a super emotional story. The writing was very stylized and beautiful. As I was going to hit the publish button and release the book to multiple platforms across the world, I pulled the plug on the book and decided to unpublish it, I decided to unwrite it. I tried to ask myself what had happened, and I couldn’t find a very good reason for why I didn’t want the book to be out there in the world.  I learned later, that it was not because I felt I’m touching a sensitive topic about the afterlife. It was not because I was afraid of being exposed (as a writer that’s what I do. I tell stories, so that fear was not there). It was not for a technical reason or lack of story; I knew the story had a good structure and plot to it. I thought about it but I couldn’t find a real reason for the decision I had made except this: an intuition. #writingcommunity #writinglife #writingtips #amwriting #writingpassion #instatips #instaquotes #inspiration #failure #succees #yes #no #intuition https://www.instagram.com/p/B_c6WYRD94U/?igshid=1epu2h1otowxi

[nicolekelley-blog1]

What is sanity? Who needs it anyways? 🤣🤣 #authorlife #authorsofinstagram #writingpassion #amwriting #paranormalromance #romance #UrbanFantasy #bibliophile #bookdragon #booklover #fantasy #momlife #magic #NewAdult #Paranormal #readersofinstagram #shennanigans #shifters https://www.instagram.com/p/BphL9CpBB_h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17cytc372l9tx

[meiwrites-blog]

Kau, punggung yang mana? Yang tak peduli? #repost #oldwriting ... ___________________ #meiwrites #meidynaarrisandi #wordsfortoday #creativewriting #writingpassion #cacoethesscribendi (at Special Region of Yogyakarta)