Why do people read books? Why do people read books? Fantasy? Escapism? The style of writing? The shape of the story? The reasons people give for why they read and like stories are many. When I look at myself to determine why I read stories, these ideas come to my mind as well. But as I have continued to think about why a people read stories, another idea has come to my mind. Something has risen to the top as making the most sense. In this episode of How to Write Good, I am going to talk about what I think is at the base of people liking stories.

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Have you ever written or plotted out a book and when you went through that writing later, if felt disjointed or did not make sense together. I think this happens to everyone at some point for various reasons, and I think that there is a strategy that can help you connect plot points of your story together in a way that will make them flow. I think this strategy will help your plot points be more organic. Today on How to Write Good, I am going to be talking about the way I develop my plot, and I hope it is something that really helps you.

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I want to be a better writer. You want to be a better writer. We all want to be better writers. It is a long process. Some think it is an arduous process (Writing hasn't really felt arduous to me in a long time. I love it). It can by annoying. Sometimes we don't want to do what we need to do to be a better writing. But we can be better writer, and that is a good thing. In this episode, I am going to be talking about four things I think you need to do to be a better writer. But I am not just going to name these things, I am going to explain why these are so important and how they help you be a better writer.

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I think it is very important to know that if you want to be successful in writing, you will need others around you for support. I don't know how you could do it alone. And if you think you could be successful as a creative all alone, just try doing it without any fans. That fact that you need other people is something you will learn as you make your creative journey. But doing something creative, especially writing, is something I believe you do yourself. I believe that good art is the result of one person's vision. In this episode, I am going to be talking about how writing is an individualistic endeavor.

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I do not like modern art. I think most of it is rubbish. I think most of it has very little value. Did I mention I don't like modern art? Most of the time I want to dismiss modern art without giving it any chance. The issue is that I know deep down inside that even the worst art can have some value in it. Today in How to Write Good, I am going to art about the value of bad art (even though I really don't want to).

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Writing follows language. This is one of my writing rules. Writing follows language, but writing is not the same thing as language. Though I have given the advice of speak what you want to write and then just write it, I am aware that it is important to develop what you are putting down on paper. In this episode, I am going to be talking about the differences I see between writing and speaking. I think it is important to look at the differences between these two things. Since writing is based on how a person speaks, we can use this baseline of speaking and then change what we need to change when we understand how the two differ.

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I have run into conversations where people talk about how Star Wars came together into a good movie by pure luck. George Lucas somehow caught lightning in a bottle. In some ways, it wasn't even his hard work that made that first trilogy great. I don't know about that because I don't know enough about film making to make that assessment. What I do know is that writing a book is not based on luck. And that is what I am going to be talking about this episode.

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Maybe you are one of those writers who has been working on an epic fantasy story for the last twenty-five years. Maybe you are one of those writers who changes the same word a dozen times. You probably have the attitude that everything has to be absolutely perfect. I get this attitude. I used to be so much of a self-critic that I didn't want to show anyone what I was writing. It took me at least a decade before I thought I had something good to push out into the world, but if I had to do it over again, I would have pushed more things out into the world sooner. I think it is the best strategy for writer, and I believe this is the best way forward for a very important reason.

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It is hard to pick which direction you want to go in your life. For some of us, picking our direction can be excruciating. If you are someone who is thinking about being a writer, this episode if for you. Maybe you are thinking that writing would be a cush job (I kind of think that too), but just because that job seems like it would be a great gig doesn't mean you should necessarily go down that road. In this episode, I am going to talk about some questions you need to ask yourself before you decide you are going to throw yourself into writing.

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Long, long ago in a world that is still under our feet, people did not write. They had no writing system at all. All communication was conveyed either through the spoken words or odd hand signals. At that time, when a person wanted to tell a story, they needed to speak that story. Over the course of history, many different types of writing systems have been developed. We have multiple ways in which we can tell stories. But I think that the original ways in which people told stories can help us understand the modern ways in which we tell stories.

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