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Make Your Reader Believe

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“If you tell the reader that Bull Beezley is a brutal-faced, loose-lipped bully, with snake’s blood in his veins, the reader’s reaction may be, ‘Oh, yeah!’ But if you show the reader Bull Beezley raking the bloodied flanks of his weary, sweat-encrusted pony, and flogging the tottering, red-eyed animal with a quirt, or have him booting in the protruding ribs of a starved mongrel and, boy, the reader believes!”

— Fred East

Murder Your Child—I Mean, Rewrite and Edit

January 26, 2015January 20, 20152 Comments

“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”

— Stephen King

Plot People

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“Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.”

— Leigh Brackett

Writer’s Diet for Success

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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”

—Julie Gorges

Mysterious Alchemy of Writers

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“Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.”

—Leslie Gordon Barnard

Tear Up…or Tear Up

January 18, 2015January 5, 20151 Comment

“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”

— Lawrence Block, WD

Writer’s Highest Aspiration

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“I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.”

— Richard Ben Cramer

Right Write Word

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“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Editor Blues

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“Authors…<insert crying emoticon>.”

— The editor

Write It Large

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Category: Hooked On Quotes

Make Your Reader Believe

— Fred East

Murder Your Child—I Mean, Rewrite and Edit

“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”

— Stephen King

Plot People

“Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.”

— Leigh Brackett

Writer’s Diet for Success

“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”

—Julie Gorges

Mysterious Alchemy of Writers

“Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.”

—Leslie Gordon Barnard

Tear Up…or Tear Up

— Lawrence Block, WD

Writer’s Highest Aspiration

“I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.”

— Richard Ben Cramer

Right Write Word

“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Editor Blues

“Authors…<insert crying emoticon>.”

— The editor

Write It Large

“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”

—Virginia Woolf

— Fred East

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“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”

— Stephen King

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“Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.”

— Leigh Brackett

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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”

—Julie Gorges

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“Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.”

—Leslie Gordon Barnard

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— Lawrence Block, WD

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“I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.”

— Richard Ben Cramer

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“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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“Authors…<insert crying emoticon>.”

— The editor

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“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”

—Virginia Woolf

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