the art of writing

What I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters.

-George Saunders

It is the stuff about you that is odd that is interesting. So, don’t think to much about how you are supposed to do it, or what the genre convetions are. Just try to amuse yourself.

Another way to phrase it: the best writing tend to be when you surrender to your nature. This is hard to do!

Here is a classic pattern: you try really hard to do

the secret to good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

- Richard Harding Davis