When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.
Edwidge DanticatTags: writing-craft
Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always going to one end and back again.
Harold FredericTags: poetry writing-craft vulnerability herold-frederic the-damnation-of-theron-ware
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: writing-craft
The hard part is putting one word after another.
Jo LinsdellTags: writing writing-craft writing-books
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
Chris EverheartTags: writing writing-craft story author writing-life author-quotes
Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.
C. KennedyTags: writing writing-craft writing-humor writing-advice writing-philosophy writing-process
Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with the rejections. Tape them up on your office wall, to remind you of all the hard work you put in when you finally start getting published! It's all about persistence and passion. And have fun with it. Don't forget to have fun.
Heather Grace StewartTags: writing-craft rejections writing-process
I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!
Ashly LorenzanaTags: writing writing-craft show-don-t-tell
A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even when that resolution and fulfillment are dark, the journey can still be vivid, potent and illuminating.
Bill JohnsonTags: writing-craft
Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY!
Michael J. SullivanTags: humor writing-craft humor-inspirational
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