Monday, October 27, 2008
Quality vs. Quantity?
I think I should make this quote my motto as I work on increasing my quantity of writing each day.... "...quantity produces quality. Only if you do a lot will you ever be any good. If you do very little, you'll never have quality of idea or quality of output. The excitement and creativity comes from...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
...time away from the world to be a writer...
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made." Gore Vidal Usually the phrase 'time away from the world' brings up images of a mountain retreat for days and weeks of solitude. Or an escape to a seaside...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Lot's of pondering about writing
as I seek to eschew writer's block and various other excuses of years past with the advent of this word count challenge. The idea of just sitting down to write, no matter what comes out is not a new one. I keep thinking of what Madeline L' Engle wrote about regular writing being akin to a pianist...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Regular writing.
I am trying to do this - to write every single day now. Next month I have signed up for an escalating word challenge where the required word count goes up every day of the month. Oh my! "You just sit down and write every day for three or four hours. You do it like piano scales until you have a story...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Where do you write best?
Is it a lovely spot or do you work hard to make the workplace as spartan as possible? "I enjoy writing when I am in the desert. There are no distractions such as telephones, theatres, operas, houses and gardens."-Agatha Christie
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