Some Takeaway from Your Writing Success and Failure Stories:

• Write About what you Care About

(and if you don’t have that freedom, find an angle)

• Ask for help
• Write the conflicts, write the struggle 

• Make Process Your Friend
• Start the first day; work on a big project for 10-20 minutes a day early in your work window
• Set FAKE DEADLINES for yourself and treat them like real deadlines
• Write a ZERO DRAFT

• Don’t think about your editor or the judgment of your readers until the very end of the process (see “zero draft”)

• Don’t play games with or try to trick your reader

(from big words that aren’t really yours [yet] or an “official style” to margin and font tricks)

(see “make process your friend”––in other words: if you do the work, you won’t need the tricks)