For the next two weeks, I’m hunkering down and getting some projects finished. Instead of leaving the blog all quiet and empty and alone, I’m reposting some of my favorite posts about writing, starting with this one, originally published on …
Twelve Posts on Writing, Day Two: Avoiding the overdone
If you run with the first idea that comes to mind, you’ll end up writing what you already know, what readers have already read, what agents and editors see too often. You’ll write the overdone, the tired, the familiar, the stereotype, the cliche.