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10 Tips from World-Renowned Writers That Will Make You the Best Version of Your Writer Self

Making it as a writer one step at a time

Writing or any creative endeavor is a long-term game. If you lack patience, you are in the wrong place, my friend. If you are someone who feels that words are bursting out of you to appear on the page but sometimes find it challenging to navigate your writing journey, then the following tips will be your best friends for your writing life.

I have accumulated the best piece of advice ten famous writers have for people who want to "make it as a writer."

1. Persevere — J.K. Rowling

Writing is not for the people who are easily discouraged. It is a long-term game. It starts by reading as much as you can, moving towards imitating your favorite writers to try to find your own voice, and most importantly, keep writing all the rubbish you got to get it out of your system.

2. Love the process — Stephen King

Writing is a long-term game, and if you are in it to win that game, then, my friend, you are focusing on the wrong thing. The aim must be to enjoy the game of writing, and this can be done by focusing on the process, not the finished product.

3. Live your personal legend — Paulo Coelho

Whatever your personal legend is, live it. If you want to be a writer, don't keep saying that you are a writer. Keep writing as this is your personal legend irrespective of fear of success or failure. Either way, when your personal legend is being a writer, you keep writing and move on regardless of whether your writing is successful.

4. Distinguish yourself from others — Malcolm Gladwell

Consciously differentiate yourself from where your professional peer group is going. Understand how ideas cluster and recognize them in ways that others aren't.

5. Just do it — Stan Lee

Don't wait for a sign or someone to tell you to start writing. If you believe that you have an idea, whether bad or good, bring it to life. Forget about how people will react to it. You can never please everybody. Remember the reason why you are writing and keep writing.

6. Don't blow the stakes up — Elizabeth Gilbert

The real stakes in writing are really low. No one is going to die or have their heart broken if their poem or essay or the book didn't work. If what you write is not liked by the people, nobody is coming to your house to shout at you or shoot you. If your writing didn't work, keep your chin up, try and put yourself out of your body and see that you are still there because this was the worst possible thing that could've happened, and it happened, and you are still okay.

7. Write two crappy pages a day — Tim Ferris

No matter what happens, write every day. Writing is like muscle training. You need to keep training it to get better at it. If you feel stuck in your story, essay, or poem, just write about how you are feeling. Just vent out, write a rant about something you are angry with. Nobody is forcing you to share what you write. It is ultimately your discretion.

8. Find satisfaction in your work — Eckhart Tolle

Identify your reasons for writing. I am assuming it is not money and fame, then alright. If yes, then you are in the wrong trade for that.

Once identified, associate your identity with the reasons for your writing. Derive your identity from your work, not from the outcomes of your work. You might succeed tomorrow or 50 years later but remember, success is not why you are writing.

9. Be emotionally engaged — Robert Greene

In other words, this is about your degree of motivation. When you are motivated or emotionally engaged, you learn and get better at it faster. This allows you to push past all the obstacles that might present themselves along the journey. Engage your deepest motivating desires, and obstacles won't feel massive.

10. Daydream — Neil Gaiman

Try putting your brain on autopilot or the default mode by doing activities that don't require active brain participation. Let your mind take flight; let it daydream. The only thing you need to get better at is to recognize and notice when the new ideas or a new take on an existing idea presents itself. This distinguishes a writer from a non-writer — noticing ideas.

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