- Practice
- A good vocabulary
- Time
- Ideas
- Ability to spot mistakes
- Eye for detail
- Patience
- Ability to consider being alone for long periods of time as pleasant
- Data entry skills
- Editing skills
- Ability to cope with repetition
- Ability to set your own hours
- Ability to set your own details
- Contacts within the publishing world
- Knowledge of reader demands and expectations
- Knowledge of publisher demands and expectations
- Imagination
- Obsession
- Excess mental energy (whatever shape it takes)
- Someone to help remind you of things like eating, cleaning, chores, paying bills, shopping etc. when you forget or get too engrossed in writing to tear yourself away
- Financial support if you don't have a job or savings and want to write more often than on trains or at night
- A comfortable spot to call your own (room or no, window or no)
- Personal knowledge on how to get started putting down complicated ideas
- An initial blast of energy
- An ability to keep reworking the same project over and over
- Ability to put on a personable front for meetings and public occasions
- Ability to use social media properly
- No fear of the phone
- Ability to research
- To keep track of industry trends
- Ability to view your work objectively and realistically
- Ability to avoid procrastinating
- Love of lists
- Ability to find silence or background noise whenever needed
- Ability to set aside your love of other people's stories long term to work on your own
Otherwise:
- A laptop or computer
- Tonnes of paper
- Pencils and pens
- Erasers
- Your mind (for the most part)
- More time than you'll believe
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