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Authors are Writers First
Does that sound too basic to you?
Think about that for a moment.
Authors are Writers First
Now that you gave it a moment, it makes sense. Right?
Each one of us who writes any sort of story, poetry, or even the news learned how to write. It began with the first steps of learning to draw the letters of the alphabet and tie them together to spell out our own name. Building on that, we learn how to create texts that are longer and form a complete thought. That thought can be as short as a list of groceries to buy and as long as Lord of the Rings.
As writers that aspire to become published authors, we find that not everyone understands our writing. So we ask friends, family, anyone who will give us that time to read our writing to make it palatable to someone outside of ourselves. All of this pre-writing, first draft writing, revising, and finalizing shapes us into authors.
Not every author is published, but every author has spent a good amount of time making their writing the best it can be. Around this site, you will find that we are all called authors the moment we post a first bit of writing. That's because even though we work on peer reviewing one another, we're well on the way to become published if we so choose by putting the work into writing, posting, reviewing, revising here on Writing.Com.
As you will find in this week's Editor's Picks, the writing process is as personal as we are all unique personalities. Some write poetry about writing. Some have thick folders full of great grammar and style advice. Others yet make detailed writing goal lists to have handy for an orderly approach to writing.
Whichever method works for you: list, contest entry, poetry, folders of good advice is entirely up to you. The best writing advice will always be one single word: WRITE.
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I received these replies to my last For Authors newsletter "Charles, Ernest, and Mark"
AnnMarie  wrote: This was a very interesting article. I am a journalist during the day and a fiction writer by night. 😉
Pumpkin Harvest wrote: I live in a college town and our local paper has shrunk to a few pages, including the sports pages. It was recently sold and is now printed outside of our area, so there is little local news. The college paper doesn't go off campus much, including a large medical center. However, we have a dozen or more papers and magazines printed weekly or monthly which keep us up to date on activities for families, local eateries, breweries, and vineyards (there are many in the surrounding counties), and organic farms. You don't see much political stuff, but occasionally an interview with a local personality or politician will be included. They have a limited readership, but are free, so there are a ton of ads. As long as those graduate students stay in the area, we will keep having some kind of local publication.
Quick-Quill  wrote: I do it all the time. Let's take Ann Rule, Mary Higgins Clark Joseph Waumbaugh. All are successful authors that take their plots from the news. I've written many a story from articles. I found a great plot from a early 1900's CT news article. I have moved the setting to MN and will write a novel set during the 20's with an interesting twist.
hbk16 wrote: This is the history of some newspapers in USA
Things were not easy and some newspapers closed
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