What’s one mistake you made early as a writer that you wish you avoided?

[lizzyrose]

What’s one mistake you made early as a writer that you wish you avoided?

I feel like I’m probably making a lot of them right now without realizing it.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

What’s one mistake you made early as a writer that you wish you avoided?

I feel like I’m probably making a lot of them right now without realizing it.

One?
And well, I'm pretty sure I'm still making mistakes. As long as I don't recognize them, I can't really do anything about them - if I knew, I wouldn't repeat them. That's life.
But I guess my first story was a fanfiction an there were quite a few things in there that want to make me jump off a bridge by today's standards indeed.

 

[Akenoi]

Starting on RR

 

[TinaMigarlo]

the first lesson I learned? Hm.
write the first chapter.
Then, write the ending or at least big fight finish chapter.
Now, you know where you're going to.
you have a beginning and a destination, you can now work out the path to get there.
it helps prevent the "meandering pointless middle" part,
that in some novels goes on forever.

 

[Eldoria]

What’s one mistake you made early as a writer that you wish you avoided?

I feel like I’m probably making a lot of them right now without realizing it.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes; humans learn from them.

Don't worry too much about writing mistakes; every writer starts with a single ink-filled scribble, like the name of this website.

 

[Queerious]

Have fun

If you have fun writing, the reader will have fun reading

 

[Makimaam]

I would gladly make those mistakes again if I had to start from the beginning, as I like to think they helped me grow as a writer.

 

[Puffikki]

I am not a writer, but am a reader.
An early mistake? Authors not believing in themselves and stopping too soon! There is room to learn and grow.

Never let negativity dampen your passion for writing!

 

[Lysander_Works]

Leaving the auto-save turned on.
Lost 2 big projects that way.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Wish I'd kept more notes on story ideas.
Had a lot of stories I started or plotted out and then lost the only pages of notes I had (or floppy disks, or software to read the files, or the entire hard drives) and now I don't remember enough to rebuild them, nor really care enough to start them over from scratch.

 

[JayMark]

Life got hard, rejection flooded in, no one cared except for me, and I gave up writing.