writing-tips

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

You never know what you will write until you write it

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

Many writers write because they__e been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that.

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

I'll call any length of fiction a story, whether it be a novel or a shorter piece, and I'll call anything a story in which specific characters and events influence each other to form a meaningful narrative. I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing. When they realize that they aren't writing stories, they decide that the remedy for this is to learn something that they refer to as "the technique of the short story" or "the technique of the novel." Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history._ It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It__ ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

I__e never liked the term __ctor_._ Barron spoke slowly, joining hands with the cast members to his left and right. The rest of them formed a circle, also holding hands, and he continued. __eriously now, is anyone here __cting_? Is anyone here pretending? __e, I__ a theater director. One hundred percent, all the time. I__ not pretending, or acting, or trying to fool anyone. This is what I do, and I give it my all__ust like you. I look around me, and I don__ see a single phony. I see people who give their hearts, their minds, and their very lives to being serious performers on the stage. In the last weeks I__e watched every one of you give up the easy life to come here and bust a gut to make this show a reality. __hat__ why I call you performers. Not actors__erformers. Because when it__ time to prepare, you work out every nuance of a role. When it__ time to step in front of the crowd, you reach out and pull them in with both hands. When it__ time to say your lines, you deliver them with skill and meaning. That__ performance. And there__ nothing phony about that. There__ nothing pretend about that. There__ no acting that will take the place of that. __nd so that__ my wish for you tonight: Have a great performance. You__e done the work, you__e ready, and now it__ time to show off. Have fun out there, gang. Perform._ --Jerome Barron's opening night pep talk to the cast of Death Troupe

There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that__ been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us_ so don__ get discouraged if I didn__ mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day_

The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can__ polish what you haven__ written. Things that made for a normal life__ike a daily routine that followed the sun__ook a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn__ a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep. He would often awake with a new idea__s if he__ merely been on a break and not unconscious__nd he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot__ seat in a ship that could go anywhere.

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!-