Here
we go with the second and last part of this great adventure. I hope you had a
terrific moment the last time, cause I sure did. Sometimes, you don’t need people to hit
you upside your bingo with a hammer. Often a word or two of advice is enough to set you off reproducing literary children like a geyser in full swing.
That’s
precisely why I'm doing this. Twenty successful writers digging into their pretty-stocked
archives of experience and sharing their finds in succinct and well thought-out
manner.
May
we thread in their footsteps!
1. The
idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and
goes straight to the heart.
2. The
worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get
their approval.
3. A
writer is someone who has written something today.
4.
Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter
what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.
5. When I
write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them
to get up until I'm finished.
6. There
isn’t time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel.
Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for
each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.
7.
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and
genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic
involvement.
– Dean Koontz
8. Get
your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
– Mark Twain
9. Books
aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the
hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite
done it.
– Michael Crichton
10. Two of
the most difficult areas to write in are humor and the occult. In clumsy hands
the humor turns to dirge and the occult turns funny. But once you know how, you
can write in any area.
– John D. MacDonald
Keep
that pen of yours bleeding.
Akpan
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