”It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
The plot thickens…
Just exactly how does ‘the plot thicken?’ Do you use cornstarch or flour or arrowroot, or do you just cook it down like a reduction?
Foulport
A friend of mine is in a place named Fairport today. I now want to write a story where a place is named Foulport. I’ll bet there are interesting characters to be found there.
The book you’re writing
Forget the books you want to write.
Think only of the book you are writing.
~ Henry Miller
Write with joy
They say “write with joy,” but I say if Joy doesn’t show up, start without her.
How a sentence is made
I have been learning about sentences from Gertrude Stein, HOW TO WRITE:
“A sentence is made by coupling meanwhile ride around to be a couple there makes grateful dubeity named atlas coin in a loan.
This is what they all do.”
Baby, it’s…
I am now working on a story “Baby, It’s… No. Sorry. Not You. It’s Someone Else. Are You Still Here? Why Are You Still Here?”
Actually, that’s probably the whole story right there, right in the title. The End.
Trust a poet
“Really, he thought, if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”
~ Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
M cich lne dnye to reyps
I have paper at bedside to capture story ideas. Apparently my next story will be m cich lne dnye to reyps thyius agonfix? I dec can tell you.
Not ‘the best part of waking up,’ then
From my work in progress:
“The coffee tasted like someone had stubbed out a cigarette butt in a smoldering electrical fire. “