How to be a TERRIBLE writer: A Guest Post by Dennis Yu
By: Dennis Yu
Easy– write about something you don’t know about. Or write about something nobody cares about. Michael Crichton, who died a couple weeks ago, gave a lecture on how he became a writer. Med school was the best thing that could have happened to him, since it gave him the specialized medical expertise and scientific knowledge that underlies all his novels.
Were he just another Harvard liberal arts grad, he noted, he might have written about unrequited love– that he loved a woman who loved another man, that man who loved another man or woman, and perhaps forming a weird love triangle that nobody but a self-absorbed teenager would care hearing about.
But instead, he ventured into med school, where he had experiences that were interesting enough to share– fact that was reflected in his fiction. The same might be said of Tom Clancy and John Grisham– folks who know a lot about a particular subject and use that knowledge to inject realism to their stories.
Thus, to be a successful daddy blogger, you need the knowledge and passion about parenthood. That will fuel readership growth– not immaculate grammar skills. Keith Wilcox happens to have the balance of both and I look forward to his writing on being a stay at home dad, while active observer of the world from the eyes of kids and adults.
Other fathers, who are yet looking to become professional internet marketers, take heed!
Dennis Yu is CEO and Co-Founder of BlitzLocal.com
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Guest writers, how nice!