How writing a book is like stuffing marshmallows in your mouth
When you stuff marshmallows into your mouth, you do so one at a time. You don’t worry about which order they come in, you don’t organize them ahead of time, and you don’t pick them up, examine them, or ponder which ones are best before you stuff them in. In fact, you...
We edit to let the fire show through…
Read moreEdit thyself.
(Learn the big difference between what’s interesting to you
and what’s interesting—period.)—Larry Strawther
Read moreMy wife took a look at the first version of something I was writing not long ago and said,
“Dammit, man, that’s high school stuff.”
I have to tell her to wait until the seventh draft, it’ll work out all right.
I don’t know why that should be so, that the first or second draft of everything
I write reads that way.—James Thurber
Read moreEverything that can be said can be said clearly.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
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