Writing Tips #1 |
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Louis L'Amour
Writing Tips#2 |
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut.
Writing Tips#3 |
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very', your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain
Writing Tips#4 |
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.
Neil Gaiman
Writing Tips#5 |
Remember, when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Neil Gaiman
Writing Tips #6 |
Notice how many of the Olympic atheletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is leave home.
Paul Theroux
Writing Tips #7 |
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Simple as that.
Stephen King
Writing Tips #8 |
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
Writing Tips #9 |
If writing seems hards, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
Willim Zinesser
Writing Tips #10 |
The first draft of everything is shit.
Ernest Hemmingway
Writing Tips #11 |
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illnesss. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
George Orwell
Writing Tips #12 |
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
Writing Tips #13 |
Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Hard to know the shape of the thing until you have a draft. Literally, when I wrote the last page of my first draft of Lincoln's Melachony I thought, Oh, shit, now I get the shape of this. But I had wasted years, literally years, writing and re-writing the first third of first half. The old writer's rule applies" Have the courage to write badly.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Writing Tips #14 |
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this ten-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
Writing Tips #15 |
Never use jagron words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
David Ogilvy
Writing Tips #16 |
Work on computer that is disconnected from the internet.
Zadie Smith
Writing Tips #17 |
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
Lev Grossman
Tip#18, Read the Tip#1 Again, And Write The Story.
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