Tuesday - Writer's Tip by Janet Lane Walters #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Writing #tip

  I think the best tip I ever received about writing came many, many years ago. I went to a day in Pittsburgh where a writer whose name I can't remember gave a lecture on writing. One thing that stuck in my mind was "Finish the book." The author spoke of how so many people set off to write a book and when they reach an impasse, they give up and start a new project. He also said that by finishing and writing the End you now could return and look at the various areas to see where you fell short or even avoided. That really made me think. I looked at several of those stories I'd begun and then left hanging. I decided to work on one of them. In the changing the story changed but not in the essentials. The book ahs been called And So We Walk on Eggshells. It became MUrder and Mint Tea. The only thing I wish i had changed when I was writing was putting the story in first person. Even so, this book has survived since 1998 and is still earning a bit of money.