ETH AINA'S CREATIVE ISLAND.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

You should mistrust what you think about writing when you’re not writing. There’s a certain expression: “When I’m in my head, I’m in a bad neighbourhood.” Another one is, “My best thinking is what got me into this quagmire” If we think about writing but don’t proceed to the act of writing, we fall back on sentimental or childish explanations for our inactivity.

The Coronavirus may mean that many of us have to spend time in isolation but, as a #writer, it’s encouraging to know that Shakespeare wrote his best works during the shutdowns of the plague. No pressure then! #WritingCommunity #writerslife #amwriting

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

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People would say I portray the world in a bleak way. It’s not bleak to me. I think what is bleak is when you create a veil to make the world feel better. Literature is one place we should be able to experience bleakness and brightness and anything in between. Literature should not make people feel comfortable, it should challenge the readers. If a book confirms everything I know and everything I think, then that is disappointing.

YIYUN LI

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
King
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Cut like crazy. Less is more. I’ve often read manuscripts–including my own–where I’ve got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.

SARAH WATERS

A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.
— Stephen King
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If stories come to you, care for them & give them away where they’re needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
~Lopez

Part of an author’s success depends on their ability to block out the noise of the world when they are writing. The noise of the day, the noise of the things around them, just long enough to get some good, clean, simple, words down. #amwriting Be persistent. Be Writing. -Wrtr