Quote: Try, Try Again
General, Writing » QuotesJuly 27th, 2007
- Thomas Alva Edison
Quote: Failure to Please
Business, General, Writing » Announcements, Fun, QuotesJuly 19th, 2007
A writer attempts to show how even a well-known classic author wouldn’t cut it in today’s cutthroat publishing business.
Quote: Big Ideas, Small Words
Writing » QuotesJuly 16th, 2007
To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.
- John Henry Patterson
Eight Writing Tips by Vonnegut
Writing » Craft, Quotes, Tips, ToolsJuly 10th, 2007
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Quote: Honest Assessment
Writing » Editing, QuotesJune 15th, 2007
Make an honest assessment of what it is you’re willing to sacrifice for your writing because it is quite a painful exercise, it’s so subjective. It should be a process of reasoning - you’ve been honest with yourself, you know what it is you’re prepared not to have in order that you might try to be a novelist.
- Elliot Perlman
Quote: Open a Vein
Writing » QuotesJune 8th, 2007
There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
- Red Smith
Quote: Just Do It
Writing » QuotesMay 25th, 2007
The best writing advice I ever received came near-simultaneously from two different sources.
I was struggling through my first full-length work, finding it a very different and untameable animal from short fiction. Writing the book was like walking against a wind machine where life, other story ideas, and lack of polished expertise threw themselves against my every effort.
Quote: Start Straight Away
Writing » QuotesMay 22nd, 2007
Get the reader into the story straight away, and use crisp and unassuming language. Don’t make the reader want to reach for the dictionary.
- Elliot Perlman
Quote: Live Writing
Writing » QuotesMay 15th, 2007
I often have written a hundred pages or more before there’s a paragraph that’s alive.
- Philip Roth
Quote: A Novel Tells the Truth
Writing » QuotesMay 6th, 2007
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G.K. Chesterton
I know it has been almost a month since my last post, and for that I apologize. My spontaneous haitus was not supposed to last this long, but ah me, such is the life of a student, right? My programming assignments have been long, a little tedius, and nothing short of infuriating. I haven’t had a chance to add to the WIP since my last post, either, which is also a little frustrating.
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