There’s a lot of information floating around the blogsphere on how to write. Some of the advice is excellent, some not.
Here’s the fun deal for this editor: I get to decide which rules I like and which I don’t. For me, the writer? Well, I’ll just keep plugging away, trying to become the best “me” possible.
Does that sound rebellious? Those who’ve known me since the sixties will probably grin and say, “Yep,” there she goes again. Those who came upon me during my blending days may wonder at the emergence of this persona. But here’s the deal. Cloning doesn’t work. Cloning in fashion, in behavior, in attitude…none allows the individual, God’s creation, to shine. So, I don’t do rebellion for rebellion’s sake nor conformity merely to blend.
And I don’t want to read or write works that ooze over either edge. I don’t want safe and boring or radical and messy. And I don’t want to read or write the way the new pundits insist things be crafted. There’s a reason classical literature lasts. Bring on the Jane Austens and the Balzacs. Find me a Turgenev or a Poe.
So, come take a look at the cheat sheet I put together for Wayside Press. See what this editor thinks important, because it will give you a clue about what this writer also thinks. And perhaps, a hint about her writing….
