‘Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.” ~ David Corbett
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Don’t Let the Rejections Get You Down
“This is a stamina game, so don’t despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn’t quit until they made it happen.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Finding a Way to Express What You Feel
“If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter–as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~The Evolving Nature of Writing
“I don’t really know how writing process happens . . . One of the things I like about the writing process is, I don’t necessarily know where it’s going, and even if I think I know where it’s going, it’ll turn out different. I find that exciting and rewarding.”
~ Richard Thompson
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Changing Landscape of Publishing
“As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.” ~ Paulo Coelho
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Organic Nature of Writing
“My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Trusting the Story to Lead You
“The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don’t really know what you will end up with until you have created it.” ~ Emily Haines
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing and Non Thinking
“I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.” ~ Quentin Tarantino
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Writer’s Precious Commodity
“Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Starting Place for a Story
“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
