Tips for success - Author Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
First off, you write better than you think you do and you can always fix it. Learn to love to edit. Writing that first draft is like baking a cake. The edits are the frosting and the pretty flowers and the decoration that make people actually want it. So you're gonna have to learn to love to edit. Every author has a really hard time when they get those first edits back. I remember mine, my agent loved, loved, loved Pride and Popularity but then wanted to cut out 20,000 words. 20,000 words. I cried. I hid underneath my desk. I just cried and cried and cried and then the next day I realized I had a New York agent and I had a chance at this book. So I got my butt up and I began to edit and listen to her and I have an incredible story because of it. So learn to love to edit and just keep going.
Video 2 Transcript
Hi, it's Heather B. Moore. Some of my tips for success as an author is to number one, be a nice person. You'd be surprised at how far that gets you in life in general. Number two would be to always work at your craft, always take feedback, always be willing to revise. Of course you're going to pick your battles but you need to also be professional. And number three, kind of going hand in hand with being professional is meet your deadlines. Don't procrastinate. Work out your word count goals per week and also leave in some extra time for maybe situations that come up that are unexpected. And probably my final final tip for success is to don't compare yourself to someone else's career because you will feel like you never measure up and you want to have a good career and happy career.
Video 3 Transcript
Tips for success. One, think of what your book idea is and then who it's for. And is that idea going to resonate with who it's for, right? You're going to write a crazy school of the future with crazy inventions for kids, right? That's probably about right. That's what it means. But if I'm crazy school in the future with crazy inventions and writing for adults, that probably isn't going to fit quite as well, right? Think about who it's for and is it going to ring true for that audience? The next step, think about is there a lot of stuff out there that's very similar to that? And if so, how is mine different, unique, even more compelling than what's already out there? Because the stuff that's out there is great, but we'd love to have something new, your voice, right? The way you do it. So think about your audience and think about how you can do something a little unique, a little better, a little different, perhaps a little more you and you'll be more successful.
