20 Writing Tips From Fiction Writers

Tips from 12 best selling fiction authors.

Use these tips as an inspirational guide - or better yet, print a copy of your desk, home office, refrigerator door, or elsewhere, so that you can be reminded constantly to stop writing your writing. Do not let the thoughts of your story go away.


Tip 1: "My first rule was given by TH White, the author of The Sword of the Stone and other Arthurian fantasies and read: Read everything you can keep on hand. I always advise those people Those who want to write a fantasy or science, fiction or romance, stop reading everything in those genres and start reading everything from the story to the end. "-  Michael Moorcock

Tip 2: "Protect the time and place in which you write. Keep everyone away from it, even those people who are most important to you." - Zadie Smith

Tip 3: "Present your main characters and subjects in the first three of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven novel, make sure that all your major topics/plot elements were introduced in the first three. Develop your own themes and characters in your second third, development, solve your topics, mysteries and so on in the final third, resolve. "-  Michael Moorcock




Tip 4: "In the planning phase of a book, do not plan to terminate it, it has to be earned by all who will go before it." - Rose Tremain

Tip 5: "Always take a notebook and I always mean that short-term memory only keeps information for three minutes; unless it is not committed to paper, you can always lose an idea." -  Will Self

Tip 6: "It is doubtful that any person who has an internet connection on the workplace is writing a good novel." - Jonathan Franzen

"Work on the disconnected computer from the Internet." - Zadie Smith

Tip 7: "Interesting actions are very interesting." - Jonathan Franzen

Tip 8: "Read it yourself aloud because it is the only way to ensure that sentences are fine (prose rhythms are very complex and can be thought subtle - they can be correct only by ear). " - Diana Athill

Tip 9: "Do not tell me that the moon is shining, show me the brightness of light on broken glass." - Anton Chekhov

Tip 10: "Listen to the critics and priorities of the first readers". - Rose Tremain




Tip 11: "The story that does not write an author's personal courage in a horrific or unknown, is not worth writing anything for money." - Jonathan Franzen

Tip 12: "Do not panic. Through writing a novel, I've experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, because I think of driving on the front screen and looking beyond it, in quick succession, Derivative reviews: Embarrassment of friends, failing careers, falling income, rapeseed house, divorce, working with the crisis like these, however, I have always met there. Leaving the desk for time can help. Through the problem, I can help to remember what I was trying to accomplish before I was stuck, for long-lasting, almost always, about my manuscript. I get to think in a new way, and if everything else fails, then prayer is done. St. Francis de Sales. Patron Saint of the authors, often putting me in trouble If you want to spread your net more widely, you can also appeal to the collection of epic poetry, Calliope."- Sarah Waters

Tip 13: "Writing life is essentially one of the solitary confinement-if you can not cope with it, you do not have to apply." - Will Self

Tip 14: "Become your own editor/critic. Empathy but merciless!" - Joyce Carol Oates

Tip 15: "Reader is a friend, not an opponent, not an audience." - Jonathan Franzen




Tip 16: "Keep your exclamation points in control ... You do not have the permission of two or more than 100,000 words per prose. If you have a habit of playing with accelerators in the manner that you have by Tom Wolf, They can throw them in a fist. "- Elmore Leonard

Tip 17: "Remember: when people tell you something wrong or do not work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you what they think wrong and how to fix it, they almost always are wrong. " - Neil Gaiman

Tip 18: "You know that when you look at your own raised prose, you feel a sense of inattentiveness and over-risk. Relax in this awareness that it will never leave a horrific sensation, no matter how many Successful and publicly admire you ... It is internal to writing business and should be cherished. "- Will Self

Tip 19: "The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and trust, then whatever you like, you are allowed to do it. This can be a rule for life as well as writing. It's definitely true. Writing.) So write your story because it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and do it as much as possible." -  Neil Gaiman

Tip 20: "I have a rule which is a post on the wall in front of my desk, which states that 'Fair at Tire' (Flaubert), which I translate for myself and become silent. ' '-  Helen Simpson

Even famous writers sometimes have a hard time with writing; They also go through a period of self-doubt. Despite this, they always manage to come with luggage. So take a lesson from them and stop your writing plans and start your publication journey today.


There has never been a better time than ever to realize the dream of becoming a published author. Let your voice listen and tell your story. Never allow less passion for writing.