*This first appeared in Lit Hub’s *Craft of Writing* newsletter—sign up here.* Open as we might be to learning how to tell a story—parsing the books we love to see how the writer did it, reacting to the impressions of our first readers, a parent, a friend maybe, perhaps a teacher, then later to the comments of an agent or an editor, trying to hew to some Platonic ideal—at one point you write the way you write because of who you are, your native you-ness, which will take to the ideas of others only if they fit a pre-established form within you. Art, like all relationships, is about connection, and connection comes down to chemistry. So follow the chemistry. Yes, seek to improve your writing, but ultimately, as Emerson said, Do your thing. Because if you’re not doing your thing in your book, then what’s the point?…