#adviceforwriters

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Your daily creative pep-talk

Hey, creative. I need you to know something.

I’m proud of you. Even flowers must fight through cement to reach sunlight, and you being here matters. I am proud of YOU.

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Your daily creative pep-talk

“Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”

Bob Ross wouldn’t lie about this, and neither would I. 

#adviceforwriters #adviceforartists #tipsforwriters #tipsforartists #2rulerecovery 

[blairthewriter]

25:9/18 - Just a snapshot of what I do when I come up with plot points for my story but don’t have time to write detailed notes - I write down “mini notes” so I can expand on them later and not forget what I need to do 📝 // #writingtips #writingadvice #writertips #adviceforwriters #writersofinstagram #instawriter #notesnotesnotes #blairthewriter #writeitout #notebook #writingcommunity #writing #writerscommunity #writer #whateverworks #clarendon #instahub https://www.instagram.com/p/BpOveaxHZ1p/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uce102n37zvi

[ninjagirl19]

www.brinadavid.com/brinas-blog/2017/8/6/you-need-a-better-editor #newblogpost #adviceforwriters

[artsatprinceton]

Yes. I write the end, or the last sentence, first. Even if I don’t physically write it down, I always at least know how the story ends.

Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Creative Writing, Emerita, Princeton University, speaking about advice for writers in Buzzfeed.

[penamerican]

A Writer's Life

Guernica: Are you lazy?

Aleksandar Hemon: Yes, proudly so.

Guernica: But you tend to think out your novels a long way in advance.

Aleksandar Hemon: That’s a nice way to put it. The other way to put it is: I think about it until I have to write it. There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.

--Aleksandar Hemon, from this Guernica interview with Brad Fox, will speak at the PEN World Voices Festival.

Join him and other writers from the Balkan Peninsula discuss their writing lives, at home and in exile.

[penamerican]

I learned that there are all kinds of intriguing verse-forms, chiefly French; and that each of these forms can and does exist in and of itself, apart from the use to which you or I may not or may put it A rondel is a rondel, irrespective of any idea which it may be said to embody; and whatever a ballade may be about, it is always a ballade - never a villanelle or a rondeau. With this welcome revelation, the mental cloud aforesaid ignominiously dissolved; and my psychic sky joyfully reappeared, more vital even than before.

E.E. Cummings - Six NonLectures

Even we need some clarification on all this. The PEN World Voices Festival has workshops starting on April 28th through May 4th. Join us

[penamerican]

Writing is "an effort to locate in the human species a counterforce to the randomness of victimization."

Arthur Miller

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