Well Said: ten bad stories for every good one

Novelist and short fiction writer Joe Meno on Hard Truth #1 about writing:

In order to write one good story, you’re going to probably write ten bad ones. You have to actually in this weird way enjoy or accept that that’s the process. You should approach each story as a kind of experiment, and you try it, and if it works it works, if it doesn’t, you move on to the next thing. Writing is like every artistic endeavor in that it’s entirely about practice. If you can’t enjoy being in front of the computer for a couple of hours and writing something and throwing it out, you’re probably not going to enjoy being a writer. That’s all I do every day. 

Read the rest of this interview with Meno by Michele Filgate at the online journal Identity Theory.

14. July 2009 by Mindy
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