FOUNDER TO THE PROFILE
Author and writing consultant, Worldsmithing LLC
“"Every world begins as a whisper — a half-formed idea drifting through the dark. My craft is to catch those whispers and forge them into something that endures." -- Z. D. Lohouse "We should strive to write worlds, not just stories — because realized worlds live, breathe, and tell stories better than we ever could alone." — Z. D. Lohouse”
IN HIS OWN WORDS
I attribute my success to the expansive support network provided by my family and friends, alongside my faith and the many struggles that have hardened and calcified me into a stubborn force of momentum.
I think that if you don't aim for perfect, aim for B+. At least when you have a mindset like mine, when you're a perfectionist, you need to accept that you're never gonna rank 10 on anything, because anytime anything hits 10, the scale moves up. you're always going to be competing with yourself. If you consider anything you make perfect, you'll never reach it again. You'll never improve. So, sort of, Calf off your scale of what you can do at 8 or 9. So that you can recognize that there's room for improvement. But be okay with that. And I mean, this was a long conversation with one of my favorite professors at MCC. I honestly can't remember his name anymore, because it was more than 10 years ago, but I only had him for a semester, but alongside that, he said, don't edit your first draft until you're done.
Don't try simply to write what is popular. In the short run, you are unlikely to find success, but if you don't love what you write, it will become nothing more than a job--robbing your passion of its meaning. Write what you love. Write for you-- and never pretend to be perfect. There is a reader for everything written, and audience for every art. Put yourself out there enough, and they will find you.
Honestly, I think it's competing with Dark Romance. ... dominating the field right now. Sort of over-the-top explicit material.
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