*NOTE:* Anything like the TCL is good not only for critique, but also for editing your own work. It's not a be-all and end-all; the end result is your decision...
*Tom Swifty* Similar compulsion to follow the word "said" (or "said" bookism) with an adverb. As in, "'We'd better hurry,' said Tom swiftly." Remember that the...
A beginning is the end of something, always. - Spider Robinson The beginning of National Novel Writing Month, when you start to put words to paper, or to a...
I've been doing a countdown to National Novel Writing month on my LiveJournal blog. I moderate this group, but I'm a little tired of deleting messages that are...
Every nightmare hints at the secret reserves of imaginative power in the human mind. What the stalled or not-yet-started writer needs is some magic for getting...
*44 Days & Counting* *Mork calling Orson, Mork calling Orson, come in, Orson.* Sometimes, hearing people shorten NaNoWriMo (already an abbreviated term for...
*Words are, of course, the most potential drug used by mankind.* *- Rudyard Kipling* I am catching up on mundane matters before November. It's taking a bit of ...
**Hypergraphia<http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/01.29/01-creativity.html>, the inability to stop writing. I can think of a few NaNoers who wish they...
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one...
According to the counter that I downloaded, it is now 41 days to National Novel Writing Month <http://www.nanowrimo.org/>. Your Quote For Today: *Unprovided...
The turning point in the whole cycle of growing is the emergence of a focus or a theme. It is also the most mysterious and difficult kind of cognitive event...
** *To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.* - *William Shakespeare* (1564 - 1616) -- Regards, Elizabeth Anne...
"I am a pretty good writer, and a pretty good editor, and a pretty good businessman. But I find it difficult to be all three at once." - Ford Madox Ford -- ...
I heard Sinclair Lewis say to his son, "Don't write what you know-you'll run out of material!" It always fascinated me. - Fay Wray -- Regards, Elizabeth Anne...
*NOVEL, n. A short story padded.* *Ambrose Bierce* (1842-1914) American satirist, journalist, and short-story writer The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 -- ... ...
The demonic paradox of writing: when you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume...
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891,...
It's strange, considering that I'm the group owner, and on some levels the blaster Yahoo software recognizes that fact, but it's not lsiting me as a member--or...
The most amusing thing about this is, the group itself told me that this message would be mdoerated; but it was not moderated at all. I think Yahoo might have...
*I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.* - *Lord...
If you find yourself getting bored as you think over your ideas and purposes, modify them to recapture your interest. - Leonard A. Podis - Joanne M. Podis ...
*From The Desk of Liz Ensley*: The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be...
*From The Desk of Liz Ensley*: *Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)* -- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley ...
Inother countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bumsliving in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America thesuccessful writer...
(Web Comic Will Write for Chocolate <http://www.willwriteforchocolate.com/>is doing a NaNo arc, for those interested.) Literature is a luxury; fiction is a...
It's a good horse that never stumbles. A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor man. All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet....
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Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality, the...
* PERSONALITY TRAITS OF A REAL WRITER* Copyright 2002 (c) Julie Hood, Finally Organized LLC. All Rights Reserved. All writers are creative types, with...
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