#on-writing

[thepersonalwords]

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Pawan Mishra

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. "

- William Wordsworth

[thepersonalwords]

Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader.

Edna O'Brien

[thepersonalwords]

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

Pawan Mishra

[thepersonalwords]

Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again and again, till they consume you entirely and become an inseparable part of you that you start dreading.

Heena Rathore P.

[believethebird]

Comprehensive list of synonyms for types of story or play, by Macmillan Dictionary and Thesaurus

From adaptation to yarn, with psychodrama, saga, two-hander, and more between.

[stine-and-carve-blog]

On the Creative Gap.

I don’t enjoy writing. The process is me swinging at a piñata. It sounds fun, but I end up tiring myself out before sulking off, wondering when the talent comes. 

The answer is it doesn’t. 

In fact, the work we do and the work we want to do is often equidistant to our desire to do good work at all. Therefore, I’m frustrated. It’s the “gap” described by Ira Glass and other creatives. That hillock we don’t walk over, but instead, like lunatics, have to flatten with clubs and our foreheads. 

There’s a gap for me. I have no idea how big it is, only that it’s immense. The trouble is finding the sweat to keep clubbing away. I’m a lazy writer. The swinging is practice to marry my tastes with my craft, but each swing leaves me less and less interested in candy and more and more interested in murdering paper mache donkeys.