“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L’Engle
fiction tips
Writer’s Wisdom: Figuring Out the Plot
I write as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis. Do what is comfortable. ~ Clive Cussler
Writer’s Wisdom ~ 6 Reasons to Write
I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I write to be seen and heard.
I write to be near those I love.
I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. ~ Shannon L. Alder
Writer’s Wisdom: Kurt Vonnegut #1 of 3
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller Tip 5
Tip 5: When you can’t create you can work.
Ernest Hemingway Tip on Writing
Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
“There is a difference between stopping and foundering. To make steady progress, having a daily word-count quota was far less important to Hemingway than making sure he never emptied the well of his imagination. In an October 1935 article in Esquire (Monlogue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter) Hemingway offers this advice to a young writer:
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.”
