TIPS FROM AUTHORS
G'day folks,
Time for some more wise words from famous authors.
Anne Enright
1 The first 12 years are the
worst.
2 The way to write a book is to
actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep
putting words on the page.
3 Only bad writers think that
their work is really good.
4 Description is hard. Remember
that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
5 Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page;
reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your
story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.
6 Try to be accurate about stuff.
7 Imagine that you are dying. If
you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that
annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So
change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to
die.
8 You can also do all that with
whiskey.
9 Have fun.
10 Remember, if you sit at your
desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It
just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It
makes you more free.
Richard Ford
1 Marry somebody you love and who
thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
2 Don't have children.
3 Don't read your reviews.
4 Don't write reviews. (Your
judgment's always tainted.)
5 Don't have arguments with your
wife in the morning, or late at night.
6 Don't drink and write at the
same time.
7 Don't write letters to the
editor. (No one cares.)
8 Don't wish ill on your
colleagues.
9 Try to think of others' good
luck as encouragement to yourself.
10 Don't take any shit if you can possibly
help it.
Clancy's comment: Mm ... There are some worthy comments here. I hope they have inspired you to keep going ... Especially number 10 above!
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