50 Tips for Writing.

After you finish writing, pretend you are someone who has never heard of your story before and read it with an open, non-judgmental, oblivious stance. Without any personal attachment to the story, do you think its good enough or does it need to be rewritten? All good stories are bad stories rewritten. Every writer will tell you that they go back and change some of their words around, add a few sentences here and there and delete whole pages of work in one go if the occasion arises. You are your own worst critic. Use your judgement to constructively critique your own work, don't be stupid and hard on yourself, and use your observations beneficially to rewrite your story/chapter/standalone. A good story is a bad story rewritten countless times. An adequate story or even a good story written the first time round is a result of lots of practice. No one was born perfect. Including me.