Writing
Love to write~
Writing
1. Read something great. Tolstoy. Dickens. Flaubert.
2. Phone in the other room.
3. Noise cancelling headphones. (Essential).
4. Just keep going.
5. Wallow in the best bits. Read aloud. Write them down. Put them on the wall.
7. Read same book as a friend.
8. Just.... See more
Henry Oliverx.comEssays should be linear, that’s what makes it an essay. If you have a mosaic of paragraphs that can be shuffled in any order, that’s not an essay, those are notes, no matter how poetic the prose.
Sequence matters. Our mind works via cause-and-effect. Of course, there’s value to creating tension, by purposely time jumping, or by injecting subtle
... See moreI would argue that the paragraph, not the sentence, is the basic unit of writing—the place where coherence begins and words stand a chance of becoming more than mere words. If the moment of quickening is to come, it comes at the level of the paragraph.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
50 Powerful reading tips from the four smartest readers I've come across:
1) Read what you love until you love to read.
2) Reading a book isn’t a race—the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed.
3) Read out of curiosity and interest. The best book... See more
A sentence is more than its meaning. It is a line of words where logic and lyric meet – a piece of both sense and sound, even if that sound is heard only in the head. Things often thought to be peculiar to poetry – metre, rhythm, music – are there in prose as well, or should be.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
It is humbling to see how much crossing out Dickens did, how much rewriting and cutting.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
Research is formalised curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston