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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Monday, October 13, 2008
The risk of writing...
At blogit we have opportunities to encourage one another in our writing. Very few of us can write in continuous isolation. I think we must know we are heard by someone... "Writers have a little holy light within, like a pilot light which fear is always blowing out. When a writer brings a manuscript...
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Writing and rewriting and
editing and reworking a piece. The process goes on and on until there's an almost suddenness to an author's awareness that the work is done. "Beware the editor who claims the line-editing isn't important. It's like a fisherman who doesn't bother to mend his nets."-Lisa Bernstein
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