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Sight Is Not the Only Sense

March 12, 2014February 26, 20144 Comments

[found on thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com; by Angela Ackerman]

“Remember to use more than SIGHT to describe.

Sight is only one way to get an image across. The other senses like smells, sounds or touching can also reveal a lot about a character and create intimacy ties between the character and the reader through recognition. Use them to characterize! Our pal Melvin would probably steer clear of heavy scents, careful to always consider both his guests sensitivity to strong colognes and to maintain his background role. Yet I could imagine standing next to him in the elevator and catching a whiff of clean soap, or perhaps a touch of aloe from his hair gel.”

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[found on http://thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com/2010/04/writers-bane-describing-characters.html]

It Takes A Writer….

December 13, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it’s a lie. Books don’t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you’d believe.”

― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors

Nobody Has to Die…To Fix Your Book

September 12, 2013September 8, 2013Leave a comment

“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

― Anne Enright

Educate Your Sense

August 9, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

― James Kisner

Fill in the Blank

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”

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Sight Is Not the Only Sense

[found on thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com; by Angela Ackerman]

[found on http://thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com/2010/04/writers-bane-describing-characters.html]

It Takes A Writer….

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it’s a lie. Books don’t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you’d believe.”

― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors

Nobody Has to Die…To Fix Your Book

“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

― Anne Enright

Educate Your Sense

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

― James Kisner

Fill in the Blank

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”

― Harold Ross

[found on thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com; by Angela Ackerman]

[found on http://thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com/2010/04/writers-bane-describing-characters.html]

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“People talk about books that write themselves, and it’s a lie. Books don’t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you’d believe.”

― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors

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“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

― Anne Enright

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“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

― James Kisner

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“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”

― Harold Ross

Share this:

“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”