Know your audience. Beginners sometimes want to appeal to the widest audience possible and so try to write for everyone. . . . But you can’t please everyone. . . Once you accept that, you can focus all of your energy on writing for the readers who will appreciate your hard work that much more.
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Are There Rules for Writing?
“There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that’s the hardest part – convincing everybody you’re a genius.”
~ Fredric Brown
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Do You Want to be a Writer?
“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day. The consistency, the monotony, the certainty, all vagaries and passions are covered by this daily reoccurrence.” ~ Walter Mosley
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Character Drives the Story
Remember that you don’t write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. ~ Flannery O’Connor
What is the Role of the Storyteller?
“The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”
~ Alan Garner
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Poetry Touches the Heart
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.” ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Stuck on the 1st Chapter?
“The first Chapter Law is, “Don’t spend much time on it. You’re going to have to rewrite it.”
~ Tony Hillerman
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Wondering Where to Start?
“Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you’ll find it is a very nice piece of writing.” ~ John Sanford
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Complaining of Writer’s Block?
“Writer’s block? I’ve never heard of a plumber complain about plumber’s block.” ~ Robert B. Parker
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing a Crime Novel?
“The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.” ~ Michael Connelly
