If you are a writer, you have come across, or even looked for, writing advice. You may have even given out some advice. What doesn’t get talked about is how to evaluate writing advice.
I think there are a couple of rules for hearing and accepting writing advice.
First, all writing advice (including this post) is crap. And all writing advice is useful.
Second, the usefulness of any advice depends on two things: 1) how well you know yourself, and 2) how good you can apply that advice your particular situation. 3) Don’t get upset about writing advice that doesn’t work for you.
The second point is the most important point, other than the first point. Spending time to understand how you work, how you organization, how you get stuff done, is always worth it.
You will hear a lot of advice and the faster you can decide if it will be useful for you, the faster you can make decisions and move forward (or not) with a particular piece of advice.
That’s all the advice I’m going to give you for now.
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