writing-process

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it

We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.__rom Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

I__ a husband, a father of two, a full-time teacher, and so my writing process mostly involves sitting down and writing, any chance I get, anywhere I am, for as long as life will let me. Music helps. Good light helps. I love quiet and coffee when I can get them. But I can write on a bus, in a dentist office__ waiting room, in bed with a clip-on booklight, almost anywhere. And I try to do at least some every single day.

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose __tory_ __lot_ __ontinuity_... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer...

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

Writing starts with living.__umors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

Don__ start right off writing the __reat American Novel_, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it__ fun and a good way to get your feet wet.

Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It__ sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author__ head that__n an excited explosion of words__uddenly become a captivating fairytale!