For any writer. No matter the style. Making words bend to suit your writing accent can be a chore. Fueling the fire is knowing a sentence won't work until the precise word has been lifted from darkness and firmly planted in the fields of your current writing process.
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Isabel Allende's wisdom for writers is to scratch your head until it comes to you. Use a thesaurus. Find that word!
Arroe: I feel guilty when an hour flies beside my writing window and barely three paragraphs have faded from the background. I'm not a perfectionist! While writing my new book Scrambled Eggs it's imperative to keep readers connected to the background. Life is moving too fast in 2013 and outside in the real world DVR's and IPods have turned us into quick fixes. Find me entertainment!
How and when do you know when a book is going somewhere? Isabel believes it's when your story begins to pick up rhythm. Your characters are shaping up, you can hear their voices while doing things you didn't plan.
Arroe: A snide careless remark will fall from my character's imperfections and instantly I want to fight with the computer flat screen. Rather than waste time and energy I use ***'s to signal my writing self to revisit the comment tomorrow.
One final wisdom for writers from Isabel is the physical act of making sure how you write your story doesn't fall into what she calls kitchen friendship. Sharing a conversation with someone in the food maker is filled with mistakes and repetition. Avoid literature. Your story should feel like a conversation not a lecture.
Arroe: In Radio...kitchen talk is the very reason why listeners rush toward other stations. Why should anyone seeking great music invest their time in listening to commercials if what's being shared has nothing to do with their life and style? Your book is no different. Don't practice reading with a friend. It opens your writing time for conversation you won't be able to escape. Become aware of when moments like this...with me now...are lectures or way too far out there mumbles and bumbles fresh from Momma's kitchen.
Read more inside the pages of Why We Write from Meredith Maran
Author
Isabel Allende's wisdom for writers is to scratch your head until it comes to you. Use a thesaurus. Find that word!
Arroe: I feel guilty when an hour flies beside my writing window and barely three paragraphs have faded from the background. I'm not a perfectionist! While writing my new book Scrambled Eggs it's imperative to keep readers connected to the background. Life is moving too fast in 2013 and outside in the real world DVR's and IPods have turned us into quick fixes. Find me entertainment!
How and when do you know when a book is going somewhere? Isabel believes it's when your story begins to pick up rhythm. Your characters are shaping up, you can hear their voices while doing things you didn't plan.
Arroe: A snide careless remark will fall from my character's imperfections and instantly I want to fight with the computer flat screen. Rather than waste time and energy I use ***'s to signal my writing self to revisit the comment tomorrow.
One final wisdom for writers from Isabel is the physical act of making sure how you write your story doesn't fall into what she calls kitchen friendship. Sharing a conversation with someone in the food maker is filled with mistakes and repetition. Avoid literature. Your story should feel like a conversation not a lecture.
Arroe: In Radio...kitchen talk is the very reason why listeners rush toward other stations. Why should anyone seeking great music invest their time in listening to commercials if what's being shared has nothing to do with their life and style? Your book is no different. Don't practice reading with a friend. It opens your writing time for conversation you won't be able to escape. Become aware of when moments like this...with me now...are lectures or way too far out there mumbles and bumbles fresh from Momma's kitchen.
Read more inside the pages of Why We Write from Meredith Maran
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