Read moreOn writing, my advice
is the same to all.
If you want to be a writer, write.
Write and write and write.
If you stop, start again.
Save everything that you write.
If you feel blocked,
write through it until you feel
your creative juices flowing again.
Write.
Writing is what makes a writer,
nothing more and nothing less.—Anne Rice
Review: The Reader’s Mind by Yellowlees Douglas
As a writer, I’ve always adhered to Joan Didion’s practice when it came to punctuation, sentence structure, and the like: “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.” However, as a former English teacher, I believe grammar needs to be a logical practice that you can explain it...Read moreBecause I am still a living
author, still at work,
I think of what I am
writing, very little of what
I have written.
Read moreWrite simply.
But do not start to think
so damned simply.
Know how complicated it is
and then state it simply.—Ernest Hemingway
Read moreAlmost all really new ideas have
a certain aspect of foolishness
when they are first produced.—Alfred North Whitehead
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