“…life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds; From your work, you will be able one day to gather yourself.” – Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), trans. Robert Bly And what is our work? The great Spanish writer and poet Unamuno said “sowing yourself.” “Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,”
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The hardest part about writing a novel is to fishish. – Ernest Hemmingway I began this novel when our oldest daughter was 1. I’m still not done. In a month, she’s headed to high-school. When she was done eating, she’d wave her hands and say, “Fishished!” She wasn’t, of course, but that didn’t matter. She had important things to do.
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To write is to struggle. You know this, or at least, you sense it, though to write you have to ignore it often. The struggle is endemic, so common it’s hardly worth mentioning. And yet, people who don’t write have no idea, no frame or context for this. And so we often wonder why it’s so hard and if it’s
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The exceptionally observant reader may have noticed that last week, in my big post, 8 Reader Questions – 8 Parts of Speech, the question of “Really?” is set apart and above the others. That’s because if there’s one cardinal rule for storytellers, it probably has something to do with this–make sure it’s believable. And while there are several key elements to
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“The new writer found she wrote best thinking of her readers’ questions–and how!” This sentence contains all you need to know about writing a story. You may want to commit it to memory. I recently discovered something I think may help new writers remember everything they need to write amazing stories quickly. Usually, beginning writers simply write what speaks to
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