Writing
Love to write~
Writing
People naturally remember musical language, and I would encourage writers to inject their prose with a bit of music. When you’re writing, think about repetition and variety. Crescendos and rests. Pace and punctuation. Read your work out loud, and feel the rhythm of the words in your voice.
Derek Thompson • Why Simple Is Smart
Write to express yourself, to follow your curiosity, to get to know yourself. Write to better understand the world. Write to meditate. Write to grow, to be creative, write because it’s fun.
It is humbling to see how much crossing out Dickens did, how much rewriting and cutting.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
Turns out, great writing is simple—if you do these 6 things every day:
1. Take long walks For each of these legends, daily walks were the staple of their creative process. • Thinking • Listening • Outlining • Observing 95% of their writing happened during long walks. By the time they sat down to type, they knew exactly what to say.
2. Capture
... See moreEmbedding place into your writing is an interesting and engaging way to write. When you read the stories again in the future they will help you to connect back to the place where you wrote them.
Andrew Anderson • The Ritual of Writing: Writing as Spiritual Practice
Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression—to speak, to say who you are and how you care about light and rooms and lullabies.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
A good topic sentence will:
Create a tension
Point you in the right direction
Delight you with elegance
