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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #craft
Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam ↗
#goals #reaching-for-your-dreams #working-hard #writing #dreams
When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I wanted to write horror stories. I had read Arthur Machen before I read Lovecraft, and I didn’t have that reaction at all. It was what I sensed in Lovecraft’s works and what I learned about his myth as the “recluse of Providence” that made me think, “That’s for me!” I already had a grim view of existence, so there was no problem there. I was and am agoraphobic, so being reclusive was a snap. The only challenge was whether or not I could actually write horror stories. So I studied fiction writing and wrote every day for years and years until I started to get my stories accepted by small press magazines. I’m not comparing myself to Lovecraft as a person or as a writer, but the rough outline of his life gave me something to aspire to. I don’t know what would have become of me if I hadn’t discovered Lovecraft. ↗
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I began a new story. My characters are my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them. ↗
#writing #writing-craft #writing-process #writing-style #life
If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention. ↗
#women-writers-on-writing #writing-craft #writing-how-to #science
Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good. ↗
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. ↗
#readers-and-writers #reading #writing #writing-craft #writing-process
...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ... ↗
Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything. ↗
You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a man plops down next to you in the aisle seat of your flight to New York, spills peanuts all over the place (back when the cheapskate airlines at least gave you peanuts), and tells you about what his boss did to him the day before. You know how your eyes glaze over when you hear a story like that? That’s because of the way he’s telling his story. You need a good way to tell your story. ↗
