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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Writers on … first drafts. May 2, 2013. Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor. — Joyce Carol Oates. It is better to write a bad. Than to write no. At all. — Will Shetterly. Write a first draft as though you were thinking aloud, not carving a monument. — Patricia T. O’Connor. Writers on … feedback. Writers on … the joy of writing →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). You are comme...
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Writers on … the joy of writing. May 2, 2013. I am certainly glad you like the stories because now I feel it’s not bad that I like them so much. The truth is I ike them better than anybody and I read them over and over and laugh and laugh, then get embarrassed when I remember I was the one who wrote them. — Flannery O’Connor. I write. The longer I live, the more convinced I’ve become that I cultivate my truest self in this one way. — Tom Chiarella. Writers on … first drafts. You are c...
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. 1 Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2 Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3 If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4 Never use the passive where you can use the active. 5 Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. 2 Write the way you talk. Naturally.
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May | 2013 | WORDS. WORDS. WORDS.
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Monthly Archives: May 2013. Writers on … books. May 6, 2013. A book ought to be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us. — Franz Kafka. There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic. — Diane Setterfield. 8212; Jeff Dixon. May 3, 2013.
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Writers on … a writer’s room | WORDS. WORDS. WORDS.
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Writers on … a writer’s room. May 2, 2013. You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett. A wrier needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; a private life. — Margaret Walker. Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. — Annie Dillard. Writers on … improving. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Writers on … books | WORDS. WORDS. WORDS.
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Writers on … books. May 6, 2013. A book ought to be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us. — Franz Kafka. There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic. — Diane Setterfield. 8212; Jeff Dixon. Writers on … truth. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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April | 2013 | WORDS. WORDS. WORDS.
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Monthly Archives: April 2013. Writers on … feedback. April 30, 2013. Don’t hang around with people who are negative and who are not supportive of your writing. Make friends with writers so that you have a community. Hopefully, your community of writer friends will be good and they’ll give you good feedback and good criticism on your writing but really the best way to be a writer is to be a writer. — Augusten Burroughs. Writers on … style. April 29, 2013. In writing fiction, the more f...
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Monthly Archives: July 2012. Writers on … writing. July 30, 2012. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert. Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Stephen King. To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. Gertrude Stein. If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Tennessee Williams. Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. Ray Bradbury. That i...
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Writers on … truth | WORDS. WORDS. WORDS.
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Writers on … truth. May 3, 2013. The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. — Margaret Atwood. Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. — Jessamyn West. It is in our idleness, in o...
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Writers on … improving | WORDS. WORDS. WORDS.
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WORDS WORDS. WORDS. Writers on … improving. May 2, 2013. If you don’t keep and mature your force and avove all have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. … Otherwise, what might be strength is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation. You will write about life, but never life itself. — Sarah Orne Jewett. Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice. — Nancy Mairs. You only lear...