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Wired for story by lisa cron6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() We’ve been trained to be so fearful of penning anything that feels like “ugly writing” that we often end up creating something far worse. It is heartbreaking how many writers suffer from the deep rooted, often crippling fear of not “writing beautifully” from the very first iteration of the very first sentence on the very first page of the novel. ![]() Beautiful writing is often equated with talent, and without talent, why write at all? It’s this: The myth that beautiful writing is what makes you a real writer, and (an even more damaging belief) that the beautiful writing comes first, before everything else. I’m beginning this month with the overarching granddaddy of them all – the myth that derails otherwise riveting stories before they’re even created. This all too common phenomenon is something I’m going to be deconstructing, myth by myth, for the next several months in my columns here. ![]() ![]() When it comes to writing, you may have done everything you’ve been taught to do with utter perfection, and precisely because of that, it turns out you’ve written something that is flat, boring and uninvolving. ![]()
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