{"id":269691,"date":"2013-07-07T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T13:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/07\/1-dont-think-that-being-published-will-make-you-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T13:50:15","slug":"1-dont-think-that-being-published-will-make-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/07\/1-dont-think-that-being-published-will-make-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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1. Don\u2019t think that being published will make you happy. It will for four weeks, if you are lucky. Then it\u2019s the same old fucking shit.<\/p>\n

2. Hemingway was fucking wrong. You shouldn\u2019t write drunk. (See my third novel for details.)<\/p>\n

3. Hemingway was also right. \u2018The first draft of everything is shit.\u2019<\/p>\n

4. Never ask a publisher or agent what they are looking for. The best ones, if they are honest, don\u2019t have a fucking clue, because the best books are the ones that seemingly come from nowhere.<\/p>\n

5. In five years time the semi-colon is going to be nothing more than a fucking wink.<\/p>\n

6. In five years time every fucking person on Twitter will be a writer.<\/p>\n

7. Ignore the fucking snobs. Write that space zombie sex opera. Just give it some fucking soul.<\/p>\n

8. If it\u2019s not worth fucking reading, it\u2019s not worth fucking writing. If it doesn\u2019t make people laugh or cry or blow their fucking minds then why bother?<\/p>\n

9. Don\u2019t be the next Stephen King or the next Zadie Smith or the next Neil Gaiman or the next Jonathan Safran fucking Foer. Be the next fucking you.<\/p>\n

10. Stories are fucking easy. PLOT OF EVERY BOOK EVER: Someone is looking for something. COMMERCIAL VERSION: They find it. LITERARY VERSION: They don\u2019t find it. (That\u2019s fucking it.)<\/p>\n

11. No-one knows anything. Especially fucking me. Except:<\/p>\n

12. Don\u2019t kill off the fucking dog.<\/p>\n

13. Oh, yeah, and lastly: write whatever you fucking want.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Matt Haig, \u201cSome Fucking Writing Tips\u201d (via daxsymbiont<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Don\u2019t think that being published will make you happy. It will for four weeks, if you are lucky. Then it\u2019s the same old fucking shit. 2. Hemingway was fucking wrong. You shouldn\u2019t write drunk. (See my third novel for details.) 3. Hemingway was also right. \u2018The first draft of everything is shit.\u2019 4. Never … <\/p>\n

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