Writing inspiration!

10 Jun, 2024

Writing inspiration: There are various ways to be inspired. This cartoon, "Shoe," was published on June 10, 2024. Cosmo Fishhawk is a reporter for the Treetops Tattler, but he'd rather be napping at his messy desk. For your amusement, here is the toon!

I know I haven't posted in this blog in quite a while. I've been really busy with marketing this business as well as helping a lot of new clients. It's consumed a lot of my time. With any luck, I'll have more free time soon.

Writing inspiration!

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Writing inspiration: There are various ways to be inspired. This cartoon, “Shoe,” was published on June 10, 2024. Cosmo Read More...

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.