Comments on: Ten Traits of Successful Writers

By: Geek Media Round-Up: January 21, 2010 – Grasping for the Wind

Geek Media Round-Up: January 21, 2010 – Grasping for the Wind — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:02:22 +0000

[...] Superhero Nation enumerates the Ten Traits of Successful Writers. [...]

By: The Great Geek Manual » Geek Media Round-Up: January 21, 2010

The Great Geek Manual » Geek Media Round-Up: January 21, 2010 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:02:10 +0000

[...] Superhero Nation enumerates the Ten Traits of Successful Writers. [...]

By: Wings

Wings — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:36:03 +0000

I fail at pretty much all of them…But I can always learn. You may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but a teenage one learns remarkably well if given a cookie now and then.

- Wings

By: Banana Slug

Banana Slug — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:29:28 +0000

I fail for life at initiative. I realized I hadn’t written in ages, but I don’t want my novel to die. So I’ve adopted a much less serious project to get back into the swing of things, and I must say I’m enjoying myself. I haven’t written a good SpongeBob fan fic since I was 12.

(Don’t expect to hear me talk much about my writing for a while. XD)

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:09:57 +0000

Okay, Susan. I've set one up here. Please remember to bookmark it!

By: Susan Bones

Susan Bones — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:30:37 +0000

Hey, B.Mac. Can I have a review forum? I’m writing a superhero story and I don’t know how to start it. Thanks!

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:28:45 +0000

Yeah, I think that selling the advice book second will be pretty easy. One agent told me that I’d have an offer as soon as I got something published. We’ll see.

I feel pretty confident that my writing is on the cusp of publishability, but it is a wildly competitive field and I think it would be wildly cocky for any unpublished author to assume that publishers will be excited to work with him. (Unless you’re an A-list celebrity and/or have hundreds of thousands of paying readers in some other medium).

By: A1Writer

A1Writer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:27:40 +0000

There is a book on amazon called 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists. All of them are spelled out in the table of contents if you use the LOOK INSIDE feature. Also, they are broken up into categories corresponding to the stages of developing a writing identity.

Congratulations on finishing the writing of your comic book! Get some books published, and you’ll see how easy it will be to get that advice book out there. Also, all of this experience you rack up will only enrich the advice book. In the meantime, you can work on volume two. Personally, I’m hoping for a book on how to break the rules (successfully, of course).

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:28:30 +0000

Alternately, if you can’t come up with a page of the story, force yourself to write a page explaining why you didn’t manage to do the page that day. Heh heh. Or assign yourself a daily hour for writing?

Or join a productive writing group? Sometimes it helps to surround yourself with friends and associates discerning enough to help you improve but friendly/polite/encouraging enough that you’d actually want to share a draft with them. In addition to SN, I recommend the particularly beginner-friendly Critters Writers Workshop, the unusually in-your-face Evil Editor, and the painfully thorough Query Shark. (QS looks at just queries, though).

By: thepopeofbeers

thepopeofbeers — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:37:09 +0000

The hardest part for me so far is initiative. When writing time rolls around, all of a sudden I remember a thousand other things I need to do. “Oh, I need to wash my clothes, I forgot. Also, I should probably mow the lawn.”