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The blog has clips from a writing workshop I am taking.
We have a few minutes to write on a subject that one of the group has chosen.
Trying to keep these all in one place for future reference.
We have a few minutes to write on a subject that one of the group has chosen.
Trying to keep these all in one place for future reference.
“My youngest child asked me the other day, ‘Mummy, if you had to choose between us and writing, what would you choose?’ And I said, ‘Well I would choose you but I would be very, very grumpy.'” J K Rowling
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
—Stephen King
“It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.”
—Jack Kerouac
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.”
—Ernest Hemingway
"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."—Octavia E. Butler
“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.”