“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Looking for the Best Way to Write a Novel?
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Just Start
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing Muscles
“The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Straight Forward Advice
You’re a writer. Make it up.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Benefits of Writing
“Writing isn’t a source of pain. It’s psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing Descriptions
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
~ Stephen King
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What is Your Genre?
“I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”
~ P. D. James
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Do You Have a Story Worth Telling?
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Working Backward
“The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.”
~ Ross MacDonald
