31 Days of Being a Writer Day Twelve A literary mastermind… Today’s post is a little different. I admire the hell out of Stephen King. He is a literary success unlike any other. He’s versatile, intelligent, and intuitive. So for…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Eleven “The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise.…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Ten “Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Nine “Most editors are failed writers, but so are most writers” ― T.S. Eliot I love that quote. I fear that one day I’ll be an editor out of monetary necessity. What…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Eight “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” ― Mark Twain Close this window on your computer, open up a writing program, and start typing. There is no way to become…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Seven “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” ― Mark Twain I’m really tired =…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Six “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Five “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” ― Stephen King I adore having an abundant lexicon at my disposal.…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Four “Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague” – William Safire I’m sure you all caught the irony of the quote I posted. If not… this post is for you. I…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Three “The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Two “Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.” ― Richard Wright FICTION – fic-tion / noun 1. a : something invented by the imagination or…