Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.
Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.
Tag: writing writers stories authors writers-on-writing
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W.H. AudenTag: writing originality writers authenticity writers-on-writing
A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.
Roman PayneTag: love passion writing writers writing-craft writer loving writers-on-writing writing-life roman good-writing payne roman-payne metabolite
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Craig RaineTag: inspirational writing artists writers-on-writing
True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,
or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Some
can breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhale
and for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.
Tag: inspirational family faith life-and-living breathing writers-on-writing novel-writing dreams-inspirational believing-in-yourself
Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your life, too, from bedtime stories you may have heard as a child to news stories you see on TV or read in a newspaper. We might even say that a major goal of living is to created the story of our own lives, a story we hope to take pleasure and pride in telling.
Andrea A. LunsfordTag: writing story storytelling writers-on-writing
Write like a motherfucker.
Cheryl StrayedTag: writing write writers-on-writing
If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?
Neil LeckmanTag: humorous writers-on-writing
I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.
Neil LeckmanTag: writers-on-writing
You may be a serious writer if ….
10. your hard drive is littered with random notes and story ideas … but not nearly as littered as your head.
9. you keep pen and paper next to your bed. And in the glove compartment. And in your gym bag. Also on the rim of the bathtub.
8. a day without Roget’s Thesaurus is a day without sunshine.
7. your emotional landscape includes creativity, confidence, elation, frustration, and the occasional neurosis.
6. you’ve ever had to clean peanut butter and bread crumbs off your keyboard, because the work was going well, and you didn’t want to stop for lunch.
5. grammar and punctuation turn you on.
4. your interest in a new acquaintance is directly proportionate to his/her potential as a secondary character.
3. you’ve worn the white e, r, s, and t clean off your keyboard.
2. the search history on your web browser would raise red flags with the FBI, CIA, DEA, and mental health professionals everywhere.
1. you have stories to tell, and you just. Keep. Telling. Them.
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