“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”
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Writers’ Wisdom ~ Trying to Figure What to Cut?
““My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Write When You Feel the Fire
“Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don’t do it” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Can You Recognize Great Story Ideas?
“Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Persistence and a Never Quit Attitude
“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Write While You Feel the Fire
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Give Your Characters Some Freedom
“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ If You’re a Writer – Then Write, Write, Write
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Dreaming and Writing a Wonderful Dance
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Go For Broke
“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things–childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves–that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.” ~
