“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”
writing prompts
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Be Stubborn, Don’t Give Up!
“Don’t give up, and don’t lose your stubborn belief that you have a story worth telling. I’ve had so many people tell me over so many years that I didn’t have the qualities needed to be a writer. All of my writer friends and I have one thing in common: We didn’t listen to the naysayers. We kept writing. And eventually we have all been published.” ~ Devi S. Laskar
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Thinking Informs Writing
“To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.”
~ Ayn Rand
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Keep Writing, Toss Perfection Aside
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that’s the only way you can do anything really good.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Keeping Your Writing Fresh
“Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Finding the “Mood” of Your Story
“I don’t always know what’s going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there’s a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it’s something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.” ~ Brian Evenson
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Developing Compelling Characters
‘Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.” ~ David Corbett
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Don’t Let the Rejections Get You Down
“This is a stamina game, so don’t despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn’t quit until they made it happen.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Finding a Way to Express What You Feel
“If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter–as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~The Evolving Nature of Writing
“I don’t really know how writing process happens . . . One of the things I like about the writing process is, I don’t necessarily know where it’s going, and even if I think I know where it’s going, it’ll turn out different. I find that exciting and rewarding.”
~ Richard Thompson
