“I believe a story almost always grows with me from a character; a certain kind of a person who always gets into trouble—or out—because he does certain sorts of things.” ~ Anne Shannon Monroe
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Can You Make the Reader Feel the Rain?
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” ~ E. L. Doctorow
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Good Writers Combine These 3 Traits
“A major writer combines these three – storyteller, teacher, enchanter – but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ How Important is Imagination?
“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.” Ernest Hemingway
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Are You an Adventurer?
“he important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously.” ~ James Joyce
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing is Hard Work – It’s Worth the Struggle!
“Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven’t been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.” ~ Harlan Ellison
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Frustrated with Your Writing? You’re on the Right Path
“If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.”
~ Maxwell Perkins
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Wishes for a Writer
“I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Humility Helps the Writer
Have humility. Older/more experienced/more convincing writers may offer rules and varieties of advice. Consider what they say. However, don’t automatically give them charge of your brain, or anything else – they might be bitter, twisted, burned-out, manipulative, or just not very like you. Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers. ~ A. L. Kennedy
