5 Things I’ve Learned About Writing

My first novel was published in 1996. I was publishing short stories for four or five years before that, which means that I’ve been in the writing game for about twenty-five years. Time to reflect, perhaps, and this is what I came up with.writing

  1. It’s useful if writers can talk
  2. There is no magic formula
  3. The gap between readers and writers is narrower than ever
  4. Publishing is a business
  5. The future is uncertain.