The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
Iain M. BanksTag: writing writing-craft fiction fiction-writing
...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.
E.B. WhiteTag: writing
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.
Wallace StegnerTag: writing inspiration motivation poverty
I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving a story into the fantastic we can actually bring it closer to the reader, not move it further away. It is more than an escape. When we read of the only daughter of a fisherman (or the third son of a woodcutter) in a fairy tale, we are all that character. That's the underlying pulse beat of such tales. Using the fantastic as a prism for the past, if done properly, removes the tale from distancing specificity. It can't just be read as unique to a time and place; it is universalized in interesting, powerful ways. When I wrote Tigana, about the way tyranny tries to erase identity in conquered peoples, the fantasy setting seems to have done exactly that: I'm asked in places ranging from Korea to Poland to Croatia to Quebec, "Were you writing about us?"
I was. All of them. That is the point. The fantastic is a tool in the writer's arsenal, as potentially powerful as any there is, and any tool we have works to the benefit of the reader.
Tag: experience writing fantasy folktale
Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked.
'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless.
Tag: writing
-Writing a book does not mean any merit if that book does not make people better
-Escribir un libro no significa mérito alguno si ese libro no mejora a la gente
--Añadido por Mike Tobin
Tag: books writing libros escribir
The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.
C. KennedyTag: writing writing-fiction
It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to be accepted in the mind but travel down your spine and fill your body and you can’t respond immediately to immediate events, there is this incubation period.
Source: http://www.euronews.com/2013/06/25/ma...
Tag: writing fiction novels writing-life fiction-writing writing-process
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Criss JamiTag: imagination life art perception reading thinking experience reality poetry writing perspective solitude dreams fantasy universe fun artist thoughts artistic songwriting vicarious contemplating
Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!
Margarita GakisTag: writing getting-things-done
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