All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.
Ramsey IslerTag: writing stories persuasion
On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.
I kept on walking.
Tag: inspirational writing humour writing-life
I am the sum of my past experience.
Some people have got a lot to answer for.
Tag: inspirational writing humour writing-life
The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.
This is something Lorne [Michaels] has said often about Saturday Night Live, but I think it’s a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.
You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. (And I’m from a generation where a lot of people died on waterslides, so this was an important lesson for me to learn.) You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
What I learned about ‘bombing’ as an improviser at Second City was that bombing is painful, but it doesn’t kill you. No matter how badly an improv set goes, you will still be physically alive when it’s over. What I learned about bombing as a writer at Saturday Night is that you can’t be too worried about your ‘permanent record.’ Yes, you’re going to write some sketches that you love and are proud of forever—your golden nuggets. But you’re also going to write some real shit nuggets. And unfortunately, sometimes the shit nuggets will make it onto the air. You can’t worry about it. As long as you know the difference, you can go back to panning for gold on Monday.
Tag: writing perfectionism
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
Tag: inspirational writing humour writing-life
On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?
David MorrellTag: purpose questions writing writer novelist faithful
Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.
Charlotte ErikssonTag: art music writing inspiration motivation writer create musician songwriting songwriter
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: writing
I will no longer let the fear of vicious comments or replies stop me from speaking what I believe to be right. I will also never give a message that everybody will agree with. I know that even my most faithful followers will never agree 100% with what I say. I also know that they know that and are fine with it.
I am done letting the bullies win. They won’t anymore. Not here.
Tag: writing negative public-opinion peer-pressure bully followers voices negativity bullies blogs blogging respond public-figures
For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.
Dennis R. MillerTag: writing on-writing bible twain hemingway
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