There are some extremely interesting things that occur in all of our lives from time to time, but not every single day. Writers who insist on sharing tidbits of their everyday life are going to find their audience shrinking until it consists only of their immediate family and the old creepy guy across the street who watches the neighborhood with binoculars..(me).
We just go on assuming everyone else thinks our life is as interesting to them as it is to us, that we forge ahead writing on topics that really serve no purpose other than to feed our already over-nourished egos. We use lots of important sounding words and string together a few words that rhyme at the end and, "tada!" we're not only an amazing writer, we're also an accomplished poet. (God help us all)
One last piece of advice. More is not always better. In fact, it's usually the opposite. Short, direct, uncluttered sentences will accomplish more and cut to the heart of what you are writing about. Ernest Hemmingway discovered this early. (he also discovered wine and suicide during his career...but that's another topic)..So if you really must prattle on about your life and your amazing children and/or cat, have the decency to at least entertain brevity...
Now, I'm late for a meeting with my agent...(where the hell is my gun?)
Caio
Luke
