
So you think you can tell?

But in my experience, people who ask you what your novel is about really want you to say something like “It’s about a young woman experiencing independence for the first time,” so they can say, “Hasn’t that been done to death?” (It was actually only one person who’d said that to me—a man I sat next to on a flight home to see my parents—but I felt h
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DEFINING GOOD People often email me excerpts of their work, anxiously asking, “Is this good?” And I can honestly answer I don’t know. I have no idea, and I honestly don’t care to know. I know what I like, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is what works—what’s effective. “Good” is subjective.
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
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