Fiction Writing Tips - 6 Golden Rules For Fiction Writers

As an aspiring writer of novels you probablyobjective. You may be showing your manuscript
come across obstacles in your writing course on ato your friends and family, but most of the time
daily basis. That is to be expected. Writing a novelthey are not going to give you very good
is quite a long process and you are bound to havecriticism. Why? They don't want to hurt your
days when you have writer's block, lack offeelings. But you need to hear what people
motivation, and are just feeling generallyactually think of your writing so that you will have
unproductive. Here are some fiction writing tipsa better chance of selling your work later. It's
and golden rules for writers to get you back ongreat to show your unfinished novel to your
track.friends, but in your writers group you will get the
1. Write about subjects that are interesting tobest critiques.
you. You may have a grand idea for a novel that4. Develop a thick skin. You must allow people to
you think will make you a millionaire, and in factgive you their honest opinion of your work. This is
that may be the case. However, if it is a subjecthow you can improve. You also need to
you have no interest in you are going to have aremember that you will probably get a lot of
hard time staying motivated to complete anrejections for your work, and you will need to not
entire manuscript. If you're writing on a subjecttake it personally. Learn from these rejections
which is near and dear to your heart or at leastand improve your writing. Editors may sometimes
something you are very interested in, you'll findinclude notes for you and these will be great
the process of writing much easier. You'll also findfiction writing tips that you can apply.
you won't have to do as much research.5. Always read. Never stop reading books on
2. Don't let your mother look over your shoulder.writing, books in your genre, as well as a wide
A lot of writers subconsciously censor themselvesvariety of other subjects. Become as well read as
because they begin to think about all the otheryou possibly can.
people who might read their book should they get6. Take classes. You may think that you already
published. So instead of freely writing, they end upknow all there is to know and that a class would
writing very stilted descriptions with the thought inonly bore you, but you will find golden nuggets of
mind of who is going to be reading it later. Youcrucial and invaluable information and fiction writing
must write without worrying about who will readtips in each and every class, sometimes from
your book.your instructor and sometimes from other
3. Join a writer's group. This is important so thatmembers of the class.
you can get constructive criticism that is