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.
And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding.
For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Stichwörter: humor art writing creative-process
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
Octavia E. ButlerStichwörter: persistence writing inspiration creative-process habit
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray BradburyStichwörter: writing writers creative-process destruction chaos construction
Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R
Nick HornbyStichwörter: learning music creative-process encouragement prince
[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."
(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)
Stichwörter: writing creative-process dialogue
Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: writing creative-process expansion opening-up
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]
Stichwörter: writing writers creative-process urge
Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."
[1967 interview]
Stichwörter: inspirational writing creative-process
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich NietzscheStichwörter: inspirational self-discovery creativity creative-process outsider mental-illness
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'yen A. GardnerStichwörter: creative-process inspirational-life spiritual-life
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