Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.
Rachelle McCallaTags: writing writing-craft writing-life bulldogs snuffle
...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...
John GeddesTags: writing writing-craft writing-process-writing-advice
... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood
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Tags: poetry writing-craft mood dark-fire different-language
...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...
John GeddesTags: past experience writing-craft memories writing-process blank-pages
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
Lisa CronTags: writing writing-craft stories women-writers-on-writing
This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind.
Davee JonesTags: writing-craft fiction-writing amwriting
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.
Brad LeithauserTags: writing writers writing-craft metaphor astronomy astronomer writing-life novelists telescope chile
If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
Arthur PlotnikTags: writing-craft
If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.
Lisa CronTags: writing-craft women-writers women-writers-on-writing writing-how-to
Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.
Ayn RandTags: writing-craft
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