on writing
Try writing in different places. (Before you do, gather up all those scattered notes you have and enter all of them in the notebook.) Try to write in at least one new place a week if you can. Carry a list of writing exercises with you at all times if you are worried about having nothing to write.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
No matter what you’re writing—story, novel, poem, essay—the first thing you’re going to need is an idea. As I said earlier, don’t make this the intimidating part. Ideas are everywhere. Lift up a big rock and look under it, stare into a window of a house you drive past and dream about what’s going on inside. Read the newspaper, ask your father about
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Ray Bradbury talks about the importance of not thinking when he is writing. He says that when he arrives at the typewriter, his task is to be living. To let his soul pour out onto the page. To quiet the mind and let his body do the talking. Then, he checks his work afterwards using the mind as a ‘corrective force’ to refine. But he uses the body to... See more
Typos definitely aren’t a sign that you lack seriousness or rigor or smarts. Writers make typos. Typos are the beauty marks of writing.
Maggy • Your creative process is not a problem
As writers, we choose to write again and again, even with all the suffering of fear and resistance, and I like to think that the ancient craft of writing also chooses us with the same stubborn patience... that your writing wants to be written by you .
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tiktok.coma book is the closest thing to a human, so writing a book is the closest you get to being a god
I am starting to understand that my writing process is a dance, with a given choreography. The making of the tea, the opening of the windows, the clearing of the desk. Perusing my inspiration, picking the right playlist. Sitting down and getting back up again. This is not procrastination, but me, dancing the dance of my creative practice.
The steps
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