“if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don’t even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is– excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”
~ Ray Bradbury
poems
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Who Are You Trying to Please with Your Writing?
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ You are Your Greatest Resource
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” ~ Neil Gaiman
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Write Boldly
““Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Which Story are You Telling?
“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.” ~
