Every good writer tells you to write the story you would like to read. Here’s how Anne Rice says it.
“Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write.”
– Anne Rice
Today I cried while working on my novel. I went where my pain is. Does that mean it’s good writing? That it will make someone else cry the way it made me cry? Most likely not. After all, I laugh at my own jokes too, and very few other people find them to be funny.
Well, back to fiction writing for me. I’m keeping this post very short. I’m saving my words for my novel instead. There’s plenty of pain and pleasure in me that needs to get out. My fiction is a good place for it.
I’ll end with another quote from Anne Rice.
“Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write.
The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won’t write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.”
– Anne Rice
I’m not writing a classic … yet. I’m still a few years away from that.
For now, I’m just writing a simple story I would like to read.