Lucynda Storey-Erotic Romance Writer

It is a mystery, but I think one of the biggest falacies out there is that writing is easy.

Part of writing is easy (the part where you get the great ideas and can’t type fast enough) and part of it is very hard work (you do have to sit down and actually WRITE and REWRITE and give your baby to someone else to look at). It takes a lot of dedication to get a completed story onto the page, and even more to go back through it when someone tells you that you need to fix things.

I actually knew a novelist once that believed you weren’t a good writer if you had to be edited. We are so blind to our own flaws that being edited is a must!

But truly, you must make time to read. It fills your own creative well, gives you ideas on what works and what doesn’t, teaches you. I remember the first time I read Jurassic Park. I read that sucker in 12 hours, with only minimal breaks…Michael Creighton taught me so much about action/adventure/suspense that I’ve reread that book more than once. When you find a treasure like that, you start to take it apart to see what makes it tick and to see if you can do it too.

You deny yourself important experiences if you don’t continue to read, both fiction and non-fiction. One of my favorite magazines to read currently is the Smithsonian because it covers such a wide variety of topics and always fuels my imagination!

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