“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” ~
writing advice
Writers’ Wisdom: Dealing with Critics
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” ~
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: Writing Can Be Hard – Write Anyway
“I know it’s difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.” ~
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: Failure Is Only a Tough Lesson
“Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)”
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🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: Know Whom To Please
“I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri
🔤Grammar Tip: Flipping a Positive Comment to a Negative
Three little letters — not — turn a positive comment (“I like your boots”) to a negative one (“I do not like your boots”). Apart from the fashion critique, what do you notice about the negative statement? The verb changes from like to do like. You need that extra part because “I not like” isn’t proper English. Negative verbs don’t always rely on a form of the verb do. Sometimes have, has, or had does the job. Sentences with a be verb can turn negative without any help at all. ~ Geraldine Woods
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🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: No More Writer’s Block
“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of writing well and the FEAR of writing badly. By default, our instinct is to conquer the fear, but our feelings are much, much, less within our control than the goals we set, and since it’s the conflict BETWEEN the two forces blocking you, if you simply change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly,” you will be a veritable fucking fountain of material. . . .” Dan Harmon
Writers’ Wisdom: Just Write
If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writers’ Wisdom: Listen to Your Heart
“When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.” ~ M.E. Vaughan
Writers’ Wisdom: Mysteries
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliché once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There’s all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification. ~ Paul Harding
