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3 Mistakes Newbie Writers Keep Making
Please stop. These aren’t helping, I promise you
This morning I got a notification that someone “mentioned” me in a post. Curious, I went to see.
Honestly, the post was terrible. I hate to say that, but it was.
The first draft is supposed to be the rambling brain dump.
The finished version is supposed to make more sense.
It didn’t.
It read like a first draft. A brain dump that never really went anywhere, except maybe around in circles with no discernable point.
If that post had been a short read on Amazon, someone would have given it one of the dreaded “this needs editing” reviews.
You already know what I’m going to say next, right?
The writer was new. And I wasn’t the only person “mentioned” in the story. The writer somehow managed to “ponder” about several top writers in the middle of all the ponderings.
I wanted to tell the writer this “trick” is more transparent than a clear plastic sandwich bag. But every parent knows you don’t reward bad behavior. So I left without responding.
