Split your skull—a hatchet works well enough. Take a more delicate instrument—a scalpel, perhaps—and make a hand-sized slit; it doesn’t matter where. Reach in (no glove needed), plunge down to the very bottom, pinch the inside layer of membrane and yank, hard.
If it feels like you’ve just turned your brain inside out, you have. Writing is brain surgery, pure and simple.
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Oh God, for a few who will love me in tiny ways every single day of my flashing existence. For a mere one or two who will treat me like the trash I am, who will love the smell of garbage and rummage through the bin of my failings to find the wrapped cheeseburger they can do without but consider long enough to get their taste buds used to the idea.
Oh for a melodious tongue to sing me a song about french fries.
Mots clés writing creative-process writing-life writing-process on-being-a-rat
When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam’s cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first, or simply hum the Star Spangled Banner between mouthfuls.
Chila WoychikMots clés writing creativity writing-life writing-process on-being-a-rat
The setting sun threatened to consume me—it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by a magnificent slice of piercing orange energy. I simply turned and walked away; I would live another day.
Chila WoychikMots clés writing nature sun writing-process on-being-a-rat death-by-sun rural-living
Of course, the writer can impose control; It's just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however... that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.
Stephen KingMots clés writing storytelling writers-on-writing plotting writing-process
The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.
Cynthia OzickMots clés writing writing-process creativity-paris-review
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
Dani ShapiroMots clés writing writing-process
A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.
Christy HallMots clés inspirational writers writers-on-writing writing-life writing-process writers-quotes writing-quotes
Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.
Christy HallMots clés inspirational writing writers writing-craft writing-advice writers-on-writing writing-process
Because.
Everything
worth anything
takes time.
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