Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!"—Marie Windsor

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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"I am irritated by my writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within." —Gustave Flaubert


When I write, I often see the scene playing out in front of me on a movie screen. I want to reproduce what I see and hear.

Donald Maass teaches writers that if it's not on the page, it doesn't exist. That's so true! On the other hand, too many details bog the story down. The trick, in my view, is to bring just enough to the page leaving the rest to the imagination of your reader.





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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape." —Ray Bradbury

Sounds like a good diet to me.

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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper." —Steve Martin



I like his confidence.





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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?" —Catherine O'Hara



I can safely declare I'm behind on my goals for the year. But I'm equally certain I would not have accomplished what I have without them.

How about you?



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