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More important than book deals and hitting the New York Times Best Seller list is this belief in yourself. In other words, he contends you have to trick yourself, because you aren’t a writer yet. You’re just beginning. But we all…
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Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
I’m truly serious about this line of work. I feel sometimes like my genius sits in the corner and watches me at my desk, day after day, week after week, month after month, just to be sure I really mean it, just to be sure I’m really giving this creative endeavor my wholehearted effort.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
James Jones, who was living in Illinois and inching ahead with From Here to Eternity.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
"You have to finish things — that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."
Source: Neil Gaiman's Advice to Aspiring Writers
3-2-1: How to stick to a new habit, how to handle criticism, and 4 types of wealth
one general rule always holds: writers like to read. This is a good thing, until the beautifully-crafted stories they’re used to seeing in a final-product book become the demons that won’t stop haunting them while they’re working on their own sloppy first draft.
Lauren Sapala • The INFJ Writer
When I started writing, I had all sorts of anxiety. Who was I, pretending to be a writer? How could I possibly call myself one when I hadn’t even written a real book, when I hadn’t been published or paid for my work? As I began to pursue my craft, I learned something important. (In fact, I’m still learning it, and if the pros I’m learning from are
... See moreJeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of writing because it is praised in the classroom or otherwise carries appealing prestige, they are vastly increasing the risk inherent in taking up writing in the first place. It is so easy to misjudge yourself and get
... See moreJohn McPhee • Draft No. 4
In this essay, I go deep on a Great American Bromance: the handwritten letters shared between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think most of us are so out of touch touch with letter writing (beyond stiff wedding Thank Yous) that we’d assume letters demand a formal comportment — and are therefore boring, onerous,... See more