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8 months ago | 2,409 notes

Writing requires discipline, but disciplined writers are not necessarily prolific. Most good work gets produced over time, sometimes many years, allowing the writer to grow with the material, to allow her world, her command over craft, and her psychological maturity to coalesce at just the right moment to produce something of value. This process often involves dreadful periods of not writing, or, worse, periods of writing very badly, embarrassingly badly. As time passes in a writing life, the writer learns not to fear these arid periods. The words come back eventually. That’s the real discipline: to train the mind and heart into believing that words come back.
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Be willing to wait. In the meantime, write when you don’t feel like it. If you can’t write, read.

- Monica Wood, The Pocket Muse (masculine pronouns changed to feminine)

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10 months ago | 319 notes

You must stay drunk on writing so that reality cannot destroy you.

- Ray Bradbury (via nerdfighter-feels)
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10 months ago | 178 notes

Good writers do not litter their sentences with adverbial garbage. They do not hold up signs reading “laughter!” or applause!” The content of dialogue ought to suggest the mood.

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James J. Kilpatrick

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10 months ago | 242 notes

The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in it—to remember, to keep in mind — as they make their way up the hill. If you hand them a yellow Volkswagen and they have to haul this to the top of the mountain—to the end of the story—and they find that this Volkswagen has nothing whatsoever to do with your story, you’re going to have a very irritated reader on your hands.

- Frank Conroy (via amandaonwriting)
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10 months ago | 634 notes

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

- Stephen King, On Writing (via martinaboone)
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10 months ago | 341 notes

Either marry your work – take it seriously and do it every day – or date it – write only when you feel like it – but know which you are doing and the repercussions of both.

- Anonymous (via fuckyeahwritelife)

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10 months ago | 185 notes

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

- BARBARA KINGSOLVER (via cmichelleinnervisions)

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10 months ago | 284 notes

There’s no rule on how it is to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly. Sometimes it is like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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Ernest Hemingway

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10 months ago | 311 notes

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

- Toni Morrison (via bduubs)
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10 months ago | 160 notes

If you want to tell a story, your characters are your most important allies. Even if you hate some them, even if you know some are going to die horribly, spend time with them and make sure you know them before you approach your plot. Get the balance wrong, or make the characters little more than cogs in the plot’s machine, and the metaphorical headsman will be waiting.

- Execution by Plot, Blue Ink Alchemy  (via ennui-enjoyment)

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