Your creative process is yours alone. Don’t worry what others think about how you write. Do what works for you. and if you remain engaged and motivated, then keep doing it. Equallly, don’t be afraid to change, we all need to switch it up sometimes.

You’re creating an imaginary world for your audience, but if it’s riddled with factual errors or comical ambiguousness then, just like reality glitching in The Matrix, the illusion will be shattered. This means you need to understand your world intimately and that means research, research, research.

ometimes we create something that we love. In a rewrite that perfect thing just doesn’t fit anymore and artificial attempts to keep it in can affect the work as a whole. Don’t force it. Be brave. Be ruthless. Let it go.

An author mentor of mine was fond of saying “the secret to writing is rewriting” and as a beginner it’s probably the best advice I ever got. Rather than springing out perfect the first time, every piece of writing, or every good piece, was the result of many, many, many, many revisions.