“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ” ~Lloyd Alexander
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Writers wisdom
“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.” ~ Ishmael Reed
Writer’s Wisdom: P.D. James 5th of 5 Writing Tips
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer—however happy, however tragic—is ever wasted. ~ P.D. James
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Write About What You Know
Write about what you know personally, limited though it may be. Get your facts right. Try to write a story with a beginning, middle, and an end. ~ Frederich Forsyth
Writer’s Wisdom ~ George Orwell’s 1st of 4 Questions to Guide Writing
What am I trying to say? ~ George Orwell
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Someone Needs Your Story
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”
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― Neil Gaiman
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Ending Writer’s Block
The inner critic creates writer’s block and stifles adventurous writing, hems it in with safe clichés and overthinking. Every writer has to find his or her own way to get free of that sourpuss rationalist who insists on strangling each thought with logical analysis and fitting each idea into an oppressive predetermined scheme or ideology. William S. Burroughs, one of the most adventurous writers to emerge from the mid-20th century, famously employed what he called the cut-up method. . . . this literary take on the collage technique used by avant-garde artists . . . who “proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat.”
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Writer’s Wisdom ~ Jane Hirshfield on Concentration
“In the wholeheartedness of concentration, world and self begin to cohere. With that state comes an enlarging: of what may be known, what may be felt, what may be done.” ~ Jane Hirshfield
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Malcolm Cowley on meditation
The book or story shapes up — assumes its own specific form, that is — during a process of meditation that is the second stage in composition. ~ Malcolm Cowley
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Anne Lamott Tip #6 of 6
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. ~ Anne Lamott
