writing advice from the masters
Quote of the Day: Douglas Preston
Quote of the Day: Brandon Sanderson
Quote of the Day: Brandon Sanderson
Quote of the Day: Susan Sontag
Quote of the Day: Susan Sontag
Quote of the Day: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote of the Day: Raymond E. Feist
Quote of the Day: Mark Twain
This page is from the collected notebooks of Mark Twain. My focus is the part of Mr. Bixby advising young Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain to get and keep a notebook. Notebooks are my theme this week and perhaps for next week. We shall see.
Cheers, james
Quote of the Day: Ralph Fletcher
It’s misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magic knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and scratch that itch every chance they have. Writers get their ideas down on paper using particular strategies that seem to work for them. These strategies are available to anyone who wants to be a writer.
-Ralph Fletcher, How Writers Work
While this particular passage comes from his children’s book How Writers Work, this advice is solid for any age group. He has a whole series of books for children writers and he wrote Breathing In, Breathing Out, as an adult writing book. I stumbled across him on a fb group post. And I am so glad I took the chance.
Cheers, james
