The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world go...
The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.
The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.
It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by...
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to f...
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
Writing's in the nouns.
Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.
Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.
Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.
There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.
Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.
I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the...
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.
It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is that it will snowball....
In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth...
Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.
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