To Myself, as I Write This Workshop Story:

[elementalhero]

Tip for the aspiring writer: write things that make your [gender-appropriate portions of anatomy] hard, and fuck the rest. Don't try to be like somebody else. Tell it your way, and be as honest as you can with exactly why it warms your shorts, both with yourself and in the tale itself.

Remember: not all honest writing is good, but all good writing is honest.

And post your own version of the Frameshift Oath somewhere you can see it, so you never forget.

[The Frameshift Oath, for those of you who don't hang at the forums I hang at, runs like this:

I Swear by the Power of All Dark Gods that I Will Write Every Fucking Word Balls-Out for Glory.]

- Matthew Stover, Stoverblog.

Comments

[alienchrist.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful advice. Mind if I requote?

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Not at all! Spread it everywhere! And read Matthew Stover's stuff, if you're into High/Low Fantasy, it's phenomenal just for his writing style. He also did the best four novels in the Star Wars EU if you like that or know anyone who does. /pimps him everywhere

[mastertemplate.livejournal.com]

That is unbelievably awesome. I'm taping that to my brain forever and ever. Also, excuse the random comment from the Master. I'm doing a bunch of tags for him. >>;

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Hee. It is, isn't it?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Tip for the aspiring writer: write things that make your [gender-appropriate portions of anatomy] hard, and fuck the rest.

Best writing advice ever.