Tip 6 of William Faulkner’s 7 Fiction Writing Tips
Don’t exhaust your imagination. The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to…
Love, Laugh, and Happiness
Don’t exhaust your imagination. The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to…
Take what you need from other writers. I think the writer, as I’ve said before, is completely amoral. He takes whatever he needs, wherever he needs, and he does that…
Don’t go into great detail describing places and things. Unless you’re Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language or write landscapes in the style of Jim Harrison. But even…
Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. Which Steinbeck covered. In Ernest Hemingway’s ”Hills Like White Elephants” what do the ”American and the girl with him” look like? ”She had taken off…
Elmore Leonard’s 6th Rule for Writing Never use the words ”suddenly” or ”all hell broke loose.” This rule doesn’t require an explanation. I have noticed that writers who use ”suddenly”…
George Orwell (From Why I Write) 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long…
“Close observation of life is critical to good writing, said Hemingway. The key is to not only watch and listen closely to external events, but to also notice any emotion…