Writing
Love to write~
Writing
Making space for writing is making space for you.
Allison Fallon • The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life
I’ll also use chunks as thought-starters for exploratory writing. In essence, I’m keeping an inventory of thoughts on my computer. I’m stockpiling ideas, stories, and prose
Mark Levy • Accidental Genius
words are actions. They punch, tear, hurt, harm, soothe, amuse, educate, illuminate. They express ideas and feelings, and they make people feel better, and they move them to tears, and they enrage them, and they define them. We are all made of nouns, live by verbs, enlarge and entertain ourselves with adjectives and adverbs.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
This quiet looking and thinking is the imagination; it is letting in ideas.
Brenda Ueland • If You Want to Write
Writing isn’t recording your thoughts; it’s thinking on the page.
Vibeke Norgaard Martin • 101 Things I Learned® in Law School
Good stories are explorations of the human condition; thrilling voyages into foreign minds.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Note to self:
Leaving this here for next time I’m halfway through a piece, staring vacantly at the page and slowly losing my grip on reality.
- The first draft is to make it exist.
- The second draft is to make it functional.
- The third draft is to make it effective.
Leaving this here for next time I’m halfway through a piece, staring vacantly at the page and slowly losing my grip on reality.
Sublime • Sublime on Substack
What separates writing that is fun, easy to read, even musical, is writing that alternates rhythms—fast vs slow, quick vs descriptive, etc. The more your writing alternates between opposites, the more movement it has, and the more the reader feels like they are being taken on a journey (opposed to hacking their way through a textbook).