Be your own harshest critic

Written By Ryan Law

As a writer, you have to be our own harshest critic,

You have to inhabit the role of a very critical reader every time you write. You have to poke holes in it wherever you can. You have to be brutally self-critical with what you're writing, because if you don't do, the reader will do it for you.

And because of the asynchronous nature of reading and writing, you have no recourse at that point. The battle will be lost.

Ryan Law

Ryan Law is the creator of Ash Tales and the author of the post-apocalyptic fantasy series The Rainmaker Writings.

Ryan has a 15-year long obsession with the end of the world, and has spent that time researching everything from homesteading to nuclear fallout patterns.

Ryan is a wilderness hiker and has trained with bushcraft and survival experts around the UK.

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