On the Writing Process:
"When in doubt, take it out.,
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I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.
Stephen J. CannellTags: writing writing-craft writing-life writing-philosophy writing-process
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.
Annie DillardTags: reading books writing writing-craft readers-and-writers writing-process
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose “story” “plot” “continuity”... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer...
William S. BurroughsTags: writing writing-process
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it.
Jeremiah LaabsTags: writing writing-process
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
John FowlesTags: writing-process writing-novels
Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
Lauren OliverTags: writing-process nanowrimo
In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.'
I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.
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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
Warren AdlerTags: writing-advice writing-life writing-process
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