“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Develop the Habit of Writing
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Dare to Let Your Characters Fly
“Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing a Story is Like . . .
“Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren’t living in the moment.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Feeling What You Write
““I like writing organically. So I don’t force anything out. I allow myself to be. I allow myself to feel. I allow the words to come to me like the wind. And I try to catch whatever message that is whispered in the breeze.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Do You Hear the Voices of Your Characters?
“I have voices in my head
I’m a slave to imaginary people
I feel what they feel
I experience what they experience
I live in their world
And I’m devoted to translating their stories
I’m not crazy, I’m a writer”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Don’t Worry About What People Think
““I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Are You Having Fun with Your Imaginary Friends
““A writer’s life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Don’t Compare Yourself with Other Writers
“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Five Common Traits of Good Writers
“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a “capacity for clear thought,” able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They’re geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.” ~
