Monday, September 29, 2008
There's an advantage to being the teller of the story.
You get to tell it from your perspective, how you remember things. "Growing up with five brothers taught me that it's good to be the guy telling the story after the lamp gets broken."-Jon Scieszka
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Writing exertion?
Do you feel drained when you write? Worn out? Exhausted? Here is an interesting quote.... "Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, the...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The right word or the almost right word.
I think I gravitate toward writing shorter peices because of picking the right word. I am amazed by novels that read like poetry in that every word is the perfect word for it's spot in the story. That is how I write poems, but they end up needing up to a hundred revisions in order to get them...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Giving...
I think that 'giving' is something that writer's do--pouring joy and sweat and tears and life's blood on the pages... "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." -Author Unknown
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
This quote is so true...
"Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about."-Kit Reed It is so strange, how one's mind can be blank, with not sense of direction. You have to actually start writing before the ideas begin to really form. It doesn't make intuitive sense to me. The blank mind seems to be yelling,...
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