Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Write that Novel
By OFW editor: Renée Miller
Published: August 26, 2013
Writers get tons of ideas. Of course it’s impossible to turn every idea we have into a novel. I mean, the very thought is exhausting. We can’t just spend our lives at the keyboard, so I’ve come up with ten perfectly acceptable reasons for you to NOT write that novel. You can pick the one that makes the most sense.
1. It has never been done before.
You know publishers don’t want original. They want marketable.
2. It’s been done before.
The idea is just overdone, and publishers want marketable, not overdone.
3. It’s outside your usual genre.
You have a comfort zone for a reason; it’s comfortable. Why screw that up?
4. It might make you famous.
Authors hate fame. It’s icky and bourgeois or something like that.
5. It’ll be too hard.
Write what you know. Simple. Novels should be easy to write, not hard.
6. It's too unrealistic.
This is fiction, for crying out loud! We must be realistic.
7. You don't have the time.
They’re filming episodes of True Blood faster than you can watch them already. Why they hell would you add something else to your To Do list?
8. Your mother hates the idea.
And she is smart woman. She had you, after all, so she’s obviously brilliant. Listen to your mother.
9. You’ve already written a novel.
Who the hell needs two?
10. It needs further thought.
You can never think about something too much.
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