In this series we will, of course, cover all the usual suspects: structure, dialogue, description, editing, etc. There are a million books and articles detailing how to do these. I will be laying each out in the way that I understand them. But my approach to writing is that to learn the mechanics alone is to entirely miss the point of what writing can be.
What separates us as writers – as individuals – is the who is the who that is doing the writing.
Want to just learn the techniques? Absolutely fine. Like I said, we will cover these. And to approach writing from this level is, I want to stress, absolutely valid. Many a successful writing career is built without descending into the dark place within ourselves.
I am not here to tell you how to approach your writing career.
But come with me into the darkness, move beyond the techniques of writing and find the you inside whose to write is the only thing that makes sense, and from out ofThe more you can carve your writing from the darkness of who you are, the more a reader will connect with what you have written.
