“If there’s any single talent a writer needs, it’s persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.” -Octavia Butler #amwriting #Keep Writing.
Writing 📝 ✒️
“Writing is sometimes about us authors reaching out to speak with the world. And sometimes reaching out to speak to ourselves.” -Wrtr #amwriting #amediting #KeepWriting.
Take a short break
Sometimes it’s good to take a short break, share some time away from your writing and to celebrate life, come back refreshed with clear eyes. It’s good to reset so you can bring everything you learn back to your writing. Life makes your writing interesting.
A Writing Block
A writing block means something has to change in the story. It means you aren’t excited enough by the current version of the story to write the story. Some authors cut things to get going, like their darlings. Others change directions in the story. #amwriting
THE ONLY TRUE CRITIC…
Remember the only true critic when you are writing is you. If you truly trust yourself, then you will know when you need to open up and change something. You trust yourself to be able to handle the change. Once you think of it that way. Everything else is noise. ~Wrtr #amwriting
Don’t Bludgeon Us Over the Head with Description
Don’t bludgeon us over the head with description. A line or three about the character is good enough — and it doesn’t need to be purely about their physical looks. It can be about movement and body language. It can be about what people think, about what goes on in her head. But throw out a couple-few lines and get out. Dialogue is where a character is revealed. And action. What a character says and does is the sum of her being. It doesn’t need to be more than that: a character says shit, then does shit, then says shit about the shit she just did. In there lurks infinite possibilities—a confluence of atoms that reveals who she is.
CHUCK WENDIG
Characters’ Agenda
Each of your characters in a novel should have a personal agenda, having a mission fills them out to the readers, as a character. They need a personal goal they seek and show every once in a while to the reader. #amwriting #amediting Keep Writing.
Writers are a Superior Breed.
Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face that much rejection and still survive. ~Smith
#amwriting #writerslife
Planning to Write
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
~ E.L. DOCTOROW
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As an author, you can’t write perfectly every day, to try to is too hard. But what you can do is write the best you can on that day; so you can then write it better the next day. Remember, no author writes every day with their “A” game. Wrtr
#amwriting #BeWriting.
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