“I wouldn’t have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There’s a story and there’s a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader’s attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.”
writing prompts
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writer’s Block Stopping You From Enjoying Writing?
“I’ve never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: ‘Am I being joyful?’ And if you’ve got a writer’s block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you’re writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.” ~ Ray Bradbury
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Poetry Borne Out of Experience
“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Have Fun Writing
“I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, ‘You got to have fun at this, or it’ll drive you nuts.'” ~ Elmore Leonard
Have You Discovered Your Writing Style?
“The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.” ~ Raymond Chandler
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Worried How the First Chapter Sounds?
“The first Chapter Law is, “Don’t spend much time on it. You’re going to have to rewrite it.” ~ Tony Hillerman
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Who is the Real Subject of Our Fiction?
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” ~ Virginia Woolf
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Purpose of Fiction
“Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ It All Starts With an Idea or Mental Image
“With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow. ~ William Faulkner
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Why Writers Write
“Writers don’t write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.” ~ Judith Guest
