How do you know if you are a Good Writer?
- Grey Templesposted 10 years ago
0 DDE: These are two challenging questions.
A friend sent me a book she loved. I thought it dragged. Was the writing perfect? I think it depends on the perception of the reader.
I spend a lot of time at the Barnes & Noble Café. I browse through many books. I usually read the introductions.
Billy Buc, a hub writer, states that the first sentence has to grab you. he is correct.
To be honest, I have often wondered how many of the books even managed to get published. But a publisher had to have liked the book enough to publish it. The publisher might have even thought the book was a perfect one. I believe it depends on the reader to decide.
An example is The Shack. People raved about it, and it is going to be a movie. My sister loathed the book and she would not even finish it. I read it all.. it dragged in spots. Again, I think it depends on who reads the material.
Which brings me to the question, 'how do you know if you are a good writer?' For myself, intuition. Any time I have said to my husband, "I just mailed a manuscript out. It is awesome!" the magazine has always accepted what I wrote. Then there was a time when I would send something out and have a 'doubt' about a paragraph...or did I rush with it?
Each time, I got a rejection, with the editor complaining exactly what I KNEW before I mailed it out!
Therefore, my answer, I think, would be, we who love to write are ALL good writers...with flaws. And what we send out to be published, we know intuitively if it is a good read or not...Everyone knows Stephen King sent his manuscript, "Carrie" to NUMEROUS publishers and got many, many rejections. We have to believe in what we write long enough to never give up sharing it with, if necessary, several agents or editors until we finally get an acceptance.
All this is just my opinion from experience.
I am working on a book, and my goal is this: EVERY sentence HAS to be interesting. Striving for perfection? Perhaps, but I know this: If a sentence drags or appears uninteresting, those who read it will see it too.
For me, as a writer, I have to follow my inner gut. I have returned to hubs I have written and deleted sentences later that I thought, "WHY did I write THAT?"
All this being said, these are just my personal feelings as a writer.
Blessings, Sparklea
- LisaKeatingposted 10 years ago0
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