“My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.” ~ Ray Bradbury
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Trust Your Inner Self
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Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don’t know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you’d mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.
~ Roger Zelazny
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Tell an Interesting Story
“I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.”
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~Five Finger Exercise for a Writer
Watch what happens today. If we get into a fish see exactly what it is that everyone does. If you get a kick out of it while he is jumping remember back until you see exactly what the action was that gave you the emotion. Whether it was the rising of the line from the water and the way it tightened like a fiddle string until drops started from it, or the way he smashed and threw water when he jumped. Remember what the noises were and what was said. Find what gave you the emotion; what the action was that gave you the excitement. Then write it down making it clear so the reader will see it too and have the same feeling that you had. That’s a five finger exercise.
~ Ernest Hemingway
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Writer’s Role
“A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. . . . He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.”
~ E. B. White
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Secret to Becoming a Writer
“The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.”
~ Ken MacCloud
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Gift of Poetry
“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
~ Greg Bear
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Learning to Write
“You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.”
~ Larry Niven
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Writing Privilege
“Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.”
~ Amy Tan
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~Becoming a Better Writer
“The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.”
~Ridley Pearson
