Wednesday, July 26, 2017

WRITING ADVICE

"Always carry a notebook so you can write down ideas." Ram Arora (wrote this in his own words from ”Will Self”)

"Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money." - Jonathan Franzen (Shared by Collin Marshall)

"If you have an idea, write it down immediately. If you don’t write it, it could slip from your mind as easily as it could enter." - Jacob Worwa

"Invent the past. Worlds don't spring up out of nothing.  However things are, they used to be another way, and somehow they got from there to here." - Orson Scott Card on Creating Worlds. (Shared by Daniel Jungwirth)

"Become a killer of clichés. Clichés are predictable and cheapen your writing. Hunt down and kill any clichés. Be ruthless." - Mary Jaksch (Shared by Nithya Atla)

"Make your words sound natural." - Mary Jaksch, WritetoDone.com (Shared by Kaylee Chen)

"Let your writing be full, wild, and bad: the badder, the better." -Mary Jakcsh (Shared by Ahan Devgun)

"Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose." - Elmore Leonard (Shared by Sophia Reed)

"The adverb is not your friend"- Stephen King (found by Daniel Jungwirth and Ahan Devgun.)

“A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.” - Pawan Mishra (Found  by Katie Sitrin)

"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you." — Zadie Smith (Shared by Sabreen Khanikar)