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\"5<\/a>As So You Want To Be A Writer<\/a>, my podcast with Valerie Khoo<\/a>, approaches its 35th episode this week, I thought I’d take the opportunity to share a few more writing tips from some of the amazing authors I’ve spoken to over the past few months.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to listen to the entire interview (or read the transcript), click on the author’s name to go through to the show notes.<\/p>\n

Nick Earls<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

“The reason that I\u2019ve been able to put so many books out is not because I managed to throw each one together particularly quickly, but it\u2019s because I\u2019ve got things at different stages at any one time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ll only be writing one book because I can only focus on one thing to write, but I\u2019ll still be able to accumulate ideas for other ones and to do that in a way that doesn\u2019t interfere with the thing I\u2019m writing.<\/p>\n

“At the moment I write it down I can erase it from my brain and get back to the thing that I have to work on.”<\/p>\n

Michael Robotham<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

“I think one of the great failings of the writers, people who want to write, is they leave all their energy \u2014 they leave it out there because they want to tell people about the book they want to write and they spend months or weeks or days talking about this book they want to write<\/strong>. They should actually spend all of that energy actually writing the thing.”<\/p>\n

Liane Moriarty<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

“I think writing your first novel is like being on a diet. That\u2019s why programs like Weight Watchers are so successful, you\u2019ve got to have something that keeps you going. Anybody can write their first chapter, but it\u2019s a really long task to finish it.<\/p>\n

“Either join a writers\u2019 group or get a friend to become a writing partner, set up a contract with somebody, say, \u201cI promise I\u2019ll get you a chapter by such and such a date.\u201d That sort of thing.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019ve got to trick yourself into writing the first novel<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Kate Forsyth<\/a><\/h4>\n

“It doesn\u2019t matter whether your novel is fantasy or not, the author is always creating a fictional construct, an imaginary world. The trick is to try to make that imaginary world feel absolutely real and absolutely true<\/strong>, it has to have that ring of truth. And in actual fact what you want is for the reader to be, when they\u2019re within that fictional world that you have created they long for it to be real and to wish they never had to leave that world.<\/p>\n

“It doesn\u2019t really matter if you are writing a contemporary suspense novel or historical fiction or fantasy, all of which I have written, the craft is all in that sense of making the world feel absolutely real to the reader, and that\u2019s part of the magic of storytelling.”<\/p>\n

Kylie Ladd<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

“You\u2019re never going to win every battle that you fight, you\u2019re never going to get every publishing contract you go for, you do have to, as well as committing to the work, you have to commit to the industry, if this is what you want to do. You have to put the hard yards in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Some people it happens very easily and organically for, but others do have to slave away for years, and then once you slave away for years and you get your first novel published it\u2019s not over, then you have to slave away writing the next one.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Are you new here? Welcome to my blog! I\u2019m Allison Tait and you can find out <\/strong>more about me here<\/strong><\/a> and more about my <\/strong>online writing courses here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check out So You Want To Be A Writer<\/em> (the book), where my co-author Valerie Khoo and I have distilled the best tips from hundreds of author and industry expert interviews. <\/strong>Find out more and buy it here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or join my online writing group, Write With Allison Tait, for your chance to get up close and personal (on Zoom) with brilliant writers and other industry insiders every month. Details here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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