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However, countless young writers are turned away by the many challenges towards getting that first book out there in the market. Established authors sympathize with their plight and have come up with two helpful tips that could prove incredibly useful for fledgling novelists.
The first draft will never please you.
Far too many writers have been discouraged by their first draft, which is a shame, really, since many of their stories have quite the potential. However, once writers can get over this and condition themselves to write and rewrite and rewrite some more, their chances for success improve tremendously.
Write, even and especially when you don’t want to.
The problem with a lot of writers is that they rely too much on inspiration to write. Inspiration, while being a good thing, may also be a deterrent. ReadersMagnet notes that a lot of the successful writers today have powered through the lack of inspiration, which countless people mistake for writer’s block. Conditioning one’s self to write, especially when one doesn’t want to, will pay dividends when writing one’s first major novel.