Video 1 Transcript
All right, recommended resources for authors, creative writing classes, Khan Academy. There are a thousand Facebook pages out there where it's like writers helping writers, authors helping authors, writers helping authors, authors helping writers. There's all kinds of pages out there. There's also writing competitions all over the place where you can get basically free beta reading for some of your stories. Usually they want short stories, but there's all kinds of stuff out there. The number one resource is to put your work out there and get honest feedback about it. You don't want a sounding board where everybody just tells you you're amazing and awesome. No, you want genuine, honest, sometimes hard to hear feedback, and that's how you improve. That's how you get better. That's what editors do, and that's what you need as an author. You need to write all the time and then get it edited to improve your skills. Improve your skill set every single day. And before you know it...