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Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“Writing well is more than mechanics, but it is not less.”
Writing
Writer
Editing
Rules
Writing Process
Grammar
Mechanics
Revision
Good Writing
Writing Well
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“What you delete from your computer, what you take out of your prose, is as important as what you leave in. It is not a loss. When you take away that unnecessary adjective, the removal adds to the ambience surrounding that noun. When you write a page and delete the whole thing, there is a sense in which it is not deleted. The better writer who remained behind is still there. In this sense the analogy to a musician practicing scales is most apt. The point is not to create so many yards of music. The point is to create a particular kind of musician, one who, when called upon, can do what he is expected to do. Writers who throw their scraps away are leaving a better writer behind, and that was the point, wasn't it?”
Writer
Practice
Training
Improvement
Writing Process
Writing Life
Composition
Writing Voice
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“If you are writing for an educated audience and, to take an example, you use the phrase
mutatis mutandis
, you are not showing off—you are communicating. You are using words to do what words are supposed to do. It reminds me of the time that someone complained to William F. Buckley about all the unusual words that he would employ. His reply was that the words were not unusual to
him
. Words are there for a reason, and foreign phrases can often do the trick that more homey phrases cannot. But if you are blogging about your adventures as a shopping mom, and you write about your purchase of a 48-pack of corn dogs at Costco, and you describe them as
de provenance étrangère
, it had better be a joke. Unusual words or phrases (foreign and domestic) are a barrier to understanding, unless the point is to communicate to the reader that you know something they don't. Then they understand what you are doing
quite
well.”
Writing
Words
Communication
Writing Process
Vocabulary
Mot Juste
Logophile
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“The brain is more like a muscle and less like a storage area. If you really want to be a writer, you should want to write a lot. If you want to write a lot, then you need to be in training. You are preparing to run marathons, not emptying a suitcase. Learning new languages, acquiring new vocabulary, keeping yourself in various forms of constant logocentric discipline is one of the best things you can do. And language acquisition is nothing if not logocentric discipline.”
Writing
Discipline
Writers
Practice
Training
Vocabulary Building
Language Learning
Logophile
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“Collections do not leave the collector unaffected. The art of collecting results in a certain turn of mind.”
Writing
Training
Collections
Curating
Commonplace Book
“The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself, the fictional characters and the audience of his works. It's a trinity of perspectives; one of his struggle, another of the story character which he writes about and the last one of the reader's expectation of his protagonists.”
Inspirational
Journey
Writers On Writing
Writers Quotes
Writer S Life
Writer S World
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere.”
Memory
Celebration
Love Of Life
The Time Of Your Life
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.”
Literature
English Language
Love Of Reading
English Teachers
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.”
Heroes
Teaching
Censorship
Literature Books
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.”
Literature
Teaching
Censorship
Careers In Art
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“I was raised in the Marine Corps and I was taught as a boy that you feed your own men before you feed yourself. It was my belief then, and it remains so today, that my platoon who loves and respect me will slaughter your platoon that hates you. But here is the great lesson I took from the plebe system—it let me know exactly the kind of man I wanted to become. It made me ache to be a contributing citizen in whatever society I found myself in, to live out a life I could be proud of, and always to measure up to what I took to be the highest ideal of a Citadel man—or, now, a Citadel woman. The standards were clear to me and they were high, and I took my marching orders from my college to take my hard-won education and go out to try to make the whole world a better place.”
Marine Corps
Citadel
Pat Conroy
Plebe System
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.”
Love
Marriage
Novelist
Pat Conroy
Moonrise
Cassandra King
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.”
Marriage
Gratitude
Novelists
Pat Conroy
Cassandra King
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“Once The Boo roamed this campus fierce, alert, and lion-voiced, and his wrath was a terrible thing. He could scream and rant and call us “bums” a thousand times, but he could not hide his clear and overwhelming love of the Corps. The Corps received that love, took it in, felt it in the deepest places, and now, tonight, we give it back at the school where we started out and we give it to The Boo, as a gift, because once, many years ago, The Boo loved us first, when we were cadets of boys and when we needed it the most.”
Marine Corps
Citadel
Pat Conroy
The Boo
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life
“The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.”
Time
Writing
Finding Time
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life
“The myth that we must have "time" - more time - in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for "more", we are forever discounting what is offered.”
Time
Writing
Making Time
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life
“When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.”
Writing Process
Writing Pro
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life
“Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.”
Writing Process
Writing P
The Writing Life
“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.”
Writing
Writer
Author
Write
The Writing Life
The Writing Process
The Literary Process
The Writing Life
“The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.”
Writing
Writer
Author
Write
Writing Advice
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
Wip
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
“I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.”
Writing
Inspirtation
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.”
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Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.”
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Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“He who walks with the wise will be wise, Scripture saith, and he who walks with the witty will eventually start to pop off himself.”
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Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.”
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