The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
My dear Keats go on, don't despair, collect incidents, study characters, read Shakespeare and trust in Providence.
Writing's in the nouns.
I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.
We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy.
He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to tha...
You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.~Tanela Hicks
You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.
His world was small, an illiterate county seat, a backward state, though from it he fashioned something greater, far greater perhaps than he ever knew. A writer cannot really grasp what he has written...
It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!
When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?
All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten fe...
Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop," said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....
I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself...
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.
I make up as little as possible. I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of t...
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As...
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