Creativity: do whatever works
Creativity is a wonderful, weird beast and I will never be tired of hearing about all the diverse, crazy and just plain …
Who’s afraid to write? All of us, I think
I’ve been tutoring a gentleman going back to university in writing recently. He’s a mature-aged student, who deferred his degree and now …
#Editing: Who wants to be informated?
So how does a word like informate, or my favourite buttle come into being? Back-formation. What is that you may ask? It’s …
Writing tip: Your voice
What is your writing voice? It’s what makes your writing recognisably yours. It includes everything from the way you structure your …
Writing tips: Planning and writing
This is a wonderful quote from George RR Martin on planning and writing: I think there are two types of writers, the …
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.†—Anton Chekhov
“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)
“What is your story world? How well do you know it? How are you giving the reader a sense of it in detail, without just dumping blocks of description?â€
By James Scott Bell, Plot & Structure
“Don’t wait. Writers are the only artists I know of who expect to get somewhere by waiting. Everyone knows you have to dance to be a dancer, you have to sing to be a singer, you have to act to be an actor, but far too many people seem to believe that you. don’t have to write to be a writer. So, instead of writing, they wait. Isaac Asimov said it beautifully in just six words: “It’s the writing that teaches you.†Writing is what teaches you. Writing is what leads to “inspiration.†Writing is what generates ideas. Nothing else-and nothing less. Don’t meditate, don’t do yoga, don’t do drugs. Just write. (Daniel Quinn)
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