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Writing Words - writing it is the only way of getting it writtenNaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Fact and FictionNovember 29th 2010 21:33
By the time the imagination is finished with a fact, believe me, it bears no resemblance to a fact.
Philip Roth Take the facts and run wild with them.
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Finish ItNovember 27th 2010 11:31
"Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it."
Neil Gaiman (from the Guardian, Ten Rules for Writing Fiction) Don't know about you, but that's my motto for this weekend. Get as close to 50k as I can and somewhere in the vicinity of having told the whole story.
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Writing is HardNovember 25th 2010 16:45
If writing seems hard, it’s because it is hard. It’s one of the hardest things people do.
William Zinsser So there it is: Writing is hard. And still you're doing it. You're doing something that most people want to do but shy away from.You're a step ahead, even if the novel you've been working on this month isn't as good as you expected or won't be finished or ends up being shorter than 50,000 words.
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Write Something GoodNovember 24th 2010 12:12
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.
Natalie Goldberg You can turn this on it's head: Just because we wrote something bad yesterday doesn't mean that today's writing will be bad, too. You'll know if today is a good writing day once you look back on what you've written.
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Don't OverthinkNovember 20th 2010 16:11
Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad.
Stephen King (On Writing) As week 3 comes to an end, don't ask yourself why you've created both good and bad prose (yes, I'm confident that you did both, so don't even try to argue that everything you've written is terrible ... ). Just accept that this is the way it is and keep on writing.There are only ten days left - where has the month gone? - and you have all December to analyse your work.
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Skip the Boring PartsNovember 16th 2010 08:20
"Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip."
The last of Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: And ActionNovember 13th 2010 17:49
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse....All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Aristotle
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: TrailblazerNovember 10th 2010 07:11
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Don't WaitNovember 7th 2010 12:03
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: The UnexpectedNovember 4th 2010 00:12
"When in doubt have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Raymond Chandler
NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Getting StartedNovember 1st 2010 00:07
"I'd gotten going, there was that much. The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."
Stephen King, On Writing (page 325)
Editing dialogueNovember 23rd 2009 22:54
Fictional dialogue in first drafts are usually boring. Most of the time. At least in my first drafts. That's why I take Elisabeth Bowen's Seven Rules for Dialogue to heart when I edit.
AF wordcount: 10940April 22nd 2008 21:52
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. - Ernest Hemingway
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