J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.
Ansen DibellTags: motivation tolkien plot lord-of-the-rings aragorn fiction-writing writing-books character-building strider
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?
Guy KawasakiTags: writing-books writing-a-book
Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.
Jessica E. LarsenTags: reading reading-books writing-life writing-books
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
Jo LinsdellTags: ideas writers-on-writing writing-process writing-books writers-quotes
Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.
Alan McCluskeyTags: existence writing-books charcters
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
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If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more.
One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.
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Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble on napkins at lunch with friends. Type on crappy typewriters or borrow computers if you have to. Fill notebooks with ink. Write inside your head while you’re in traffic and when you’re sitting in the doctor’s office. Write the truth, write lies. Write the perfect spouse. Write your dreams. Write your nightmares. Write while you cry about what you’re writing, write while you laugh out loud at your own words. Write until your fingers hurt, then keep writing more. Don’t ever stop writing. Don’t ever give up on your story, no matter what “they” say. Don’t ever let anybody take away your voice. You have something to say, your soul has a story to tell. Write it. There is never any reason to be afraid. Just write it and then put it out there for the world. Shove it up a flag pole and see who salutes it. Somebody will say it’s crap. So what? Somebody else will love it. And that’s what writing’s about. Love. Love of the art, love of the story, and love for and from the people who really understand your work. Nobody else matters. Love yourself. Love your work. Be brave. Just write.
Melodie RamoneTags: writing-books writing-from-the-heart
The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.
Khaled TalibTags: writing-advice writing-books writing-style quotes-about-writing quotes-and-saying
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.
Neil GaimanTags: books writing creativity authors writing-advice gaiman neil-gaiman writing-life writing-books tumblr
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