Category Archives: Writer to Writer
Less truly is more when it comes to productivity. The less time spent to accomplish tasks, the more productive you are. Accomplishing more with less work requires creative thinking and a willingness to change. If you’ve always done something a certain way, it may feel uncomfortable when you try something new. When you see how [...]
Just about everyone I talk to is an aspiring writer. I’ve also noticed that many aspiring writers don’t actually write. They aspire to write, one day, when the kids are older or grown, when they can afford to work part time, or when they’ve retired from the 9 to 5 grind. Sadly, the perfect day [...]
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. - Horace
If you wish to be a writer; write! -Epictetus
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and [...]
Writing isn’t just an act of putting words to paper. It is a labor of love, constantly challenging, rarely appreciated and never perfected. As writers, we give our imagination a voice which struggles to be heard. We must use plain, simple language which can be understood. While we strive to find the most precise and [...]
It’s never crowded along the extra mile. - Wayne Dyer
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you [...]
It is so much easier to say that you like this or dislike that, than to tell why one thing is, or where another thing comes from, that many flourishing critics will have to go out of business altogether if the scientific method comes in, for then the critic will have to know something besides [...]
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens [...]
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one [...]
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. - Winston Churchill
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures. - Horace Greeley
Everyone has three characters: that which one shows, that which one has, and that which one thinks he has. - Alphonse Karr
All receive advice. Only the wise [...]
Criticism does not inquire whether a work is true to life, but tacitly or explicitly compares it with models, and tests it by them. If literary art traveled by any such road as criticism would have it go, it would travel in a vicious circle, and would arrive only at the point of departure. Literature [...]
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