Great Britain, if you haven’t heard of it, is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, just north of France. It’s very rainy, and the people who live here like to talk about how rainy it is more than perhaps any other topic. We’re consistent like that.
Don’t get stuck trying to conform your writing to every piece of advice you hear, even if it comes from an impressive source. Assess your work for problem areas, seek out potential solutions, find the one that works, and repeat.
There are many things we can do to help those around us, and one of the simplest is simply to stay home, self-isolating whenever possible. There are a hundred unique challenges to this seemingly simple task, but one that most artists are likely to arrive at sooner or later is the challenge of creation – you’re stuck at home, the world needs light, so how do you go about making art?
Unlike athletes, writers hit their peak pretty late in life. This is partly thanks to practice, partly because life experience yields richer stories, and partly because they’ve had a chance to learn from their past work and past selves.
