Ignore every current trend and movement; pay no attention to what is presently most admired or most mocked; beware fervent admiration of any writer, however lauded, or any style, however praised. Think only of how you can make your writing most perfect, and most perfectly your own. – Sarah Perry
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📖 Writer’s Tip ~ Start Someplace
Sometimes the hardest thing in writing a story is where to start. You don’t need to have a great idea, you just have to put pen to paper. Start with a bad idea, start with the wrong direction, start with a character you don’t like, something positive will come out of it. – Marion Deuchars
📖 Writer’s Tip: Writing a Sentence
The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is ‘What am I trying to do?’ ~ Stanley Fish
📖 Writer’s Tip ~ Gaining Inspiration
“I need only walk for 15 minutes or so and in that space, I will likely discover something. I just have to be looking and listening.” ~ Kayo Chingony
Writer’s Tip: Don’t Lose a Creative Thought
Write down ideas, all the time. Keep a little notebook handy (Nabokov carried around index cards) and write down ideas for stories or articles or novels or characters. Write down snippets of conversation that you hear. Write down plot twists and visual details and fragments of song lyrics or poems that move you. Having these ideas written down helps, because they can inspire you or actually go directly into your writing. I like to keep a list of post ideas for my blog, and I continually add to it.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom: The Courage to Write
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
~ Stephen King
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: Know Whom to Trust
“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you’re dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don’t trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
Writers’ Wisdom: 6th of 7 Writing Rules by V.S. Naipaul
Rule 6. Avoid the abstract. Always go for the concrete. ~ V. S. Naipaul
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Writer’s Wisdom: The Value of a Word
“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
― Charles Pégu
Writers’ Wisdom: Cure for Writer’s Block
“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling at the problem. But don’t make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people’s words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.” ~ Hilary Mantel
