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Tips on Writing
« on: July 20, 2013, 11:23:19 AM »
Write your heart out.

The first sentence can be written only after the last sentence has been written. FIRST DRAFTS ARE HELL. FINAL DRAFTS, PARADISE.

You are writing for your contemporaries — not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

Keep in mind Oscar Wilde: “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

When in doubt how to end a chapter, bring in a man with a gun. (This is Raymond Chandler’s advice, not mine. I would not try this.)

Unless you are experimenting with form — gnarled, snarled & obscure — be alert for possibilities of paragraphing.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Don’t try to anticipate an ideal reader — or any reader.
He/she might exist — but is reading someone else.

Read, observe, listen intensely! — as if your life depended upon it.

Write your heart out.

--Joyce Carol Oates

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Re: Tips on Writing
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2013, 05:08:49 PM »

Read, observe, listen intensely! — as if your life depended upon it.

why dont you listen to your own advice. get out of tb while you still can. after august 17 it will be too late



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Re: Tips on Writing
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2013, 06:09:26 PM »
When in doubt how to end a chapter, bring in a man with a gun. (This is Raymond Chandler’s advice, not mine. I would not try this.)

He he, this reminds me of Mark Twain's facetious advice about how to deal with stray characters: Make them go to the back of the house and fall down the well...

;D

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Re: Tips on Writing
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2013, 11:58:55 AM »
He he, this reminds me of Mark Twain's facetious advice about how to deal with stray characters: Make them go to the back of the house and fall down the well...

;D

better yet, let them burn in their own hell.

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