Writers’ Wisdom: Write it Like You Feel
“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ” ~Lloyd Alexander
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Writers wisdom
“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news,… Read More »Writers wisdom
Writer’s Wisdom: P.D. James 5th of 5 Writing Tips
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer—however happy, however tragic—is ever wasted. ~… Read More »Writer’s Wisdom: P.D. James 5th of 5 Writing Tips
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Write About What You Know
Write about what you know personally, limited though it may be. Get your facts right. Try to write a story with a beginning, middle, and… Read More »Writer’s Wisdom ~ Write About What You Know
Writer’s Wisdom ~ George Orwell’s 1st of 4 Questions to Guide Writing
What am I trying to say? ~ George Orwell
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Someone Needs Your Story
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it… Read More »Writer’s Wisdom ~ Someone Needs Your Story
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Ending Writer’s Block
The inner critic creates writer’s block and stifles adventurous writing, hems it in with safe clichés and overthinking. Every writer has to find his or… Read More »Writer’s Wisdom ~ Ending Writer’s Block
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Jane Hirshfield on Concentration
“In the wholeheartedness of concentration, world and self begin to cohere. With that state comes an enlarging: of what may be known, what may be… Read More »Writer’s Wisdom ~ Jane Hirshfield on Concentration
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Malcolm Cowley on meditation
The book or story shapes up — assumes its own specific form, that is — during a process of meditation that is the second stage… Read More »Writer’s Wisdom ~ Malcolm Cowley on meditation
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Anne Lamott Tip #6 of 6
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. ~ Anne Lamott
