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Reality Need Not Apply

November 3, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

― James Van Pelt

Book Construction

November 1, 2013November 1, 2013Leave a comment

“For as long as I could remember, I’d been making vague and confident assurances that any day I would finish the thing [my book]. If and when I ever did, they would probably feel an almost physical sense of relief. I was like a massively incompetent handyman who’d been up on their roof now for years, trying to take down a gnarled old lightning-struck tree trunk that had fallen against the house, haunting every gathering, all discussions of family business, any attempt they made to sit down together and plan for the future, with the remote but ceaseless whining of my saw.”

― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

Write A Book You Can

October 18, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell — that’s the hard part.”

― Jay Taylor, The Rise Of Majick

Location, Location…Ummmm.

October 12, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!”

― Laurence Bradbury

How Sharp Is Your Pen?

September 28, 2013September 18, 2013Leave a comment

“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.”

― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

Never Give Up, Throw Something

September 26, 2013September 18, 2013Leave a comment

“That’s the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can’t be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn’t just walk off the mound and weep.”

― Raymond Chandler, The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959

Write For Fun, For Life

September 24, 2013September 18, 2013Leave a comment

“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing, and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.”

― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Show Me The Egress!

September 22, 2013September 18, 20132 Comments

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

― Vincent H. O’Neil, Death Troupe

Panic Not, Thou Writer of the Failing Plot Line

September 20, 2013September 18, 2013Leave a comment

“Don’t panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends’ embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way….”

― Sarah Waters

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s Super Writer!

September 14, 2013September 8, 2013Leave a comment

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Reality Need Not Apply

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

― James Van Pelt

Book Construction

― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

Write A Book You Can

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell — that’s the hard part.”

― Jay Taylor, The Rise Of Majick

Location, Location…Ummmm.

“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!”

― Laurence Bradbury

How Sharp Is Your Pen?

“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.”

― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

Never Give Up, Throw Something

“That’s the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can’t be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn’t just walk off the mound and weep.”

― Raymond Chandler, The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959

Write For Fun, For Life

“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing, and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.”

― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Show Me The Egress!

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

― Vincent H. O’Neil, Death Troupe

Panic Not, Thou Writer of the Failing Plot Line

― Sarah Waters

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s Super Writer!

“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days, and we can destroy them just as fast.”

― Linda Nelson

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

― James Van Pelt

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― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

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“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell — that’s the hard part.”

― Jay Taylor, The Rise Of Majick

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“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!”

― Laurence Bradbury

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“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.”

― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

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“That’s the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can’t be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn’t just walk off the mound and weep.”

― Raymond Chandler, The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959

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“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing, and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.”

― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

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“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

― Vincent H. O’Neil, Death Troupe

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― Sarah Waters

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“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days, and we can destroy them just as fast.”

― Linda Nelson

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