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It’s amazing that I’ve been able to write stories people like, considering how many flaws I have as a writer. I’m good at creating basic plot structures, I’m good at creating characters whose personalities support those plot structures, and I can alternate stressed and unstressed syllables to get people to say my writing is “flowing.” I struggle with creating subplots, giving descriptions, giving characters different voices, creating a sense of place beyond the white room . . . My writing is beyond “lean” and into “skeletal,” and yet somehow I get praise.
I feel like if I can write, lots of people can write. Find the thing you’re good at, and double, triple, quadruple down on it. If the only thing you’re good at is descriptions, drown your stories in description. If your one skill is dialogue, put everything you have into your dialogue. There’s an audience out there for it.
