“If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.”
~ Kristen Wiig, b. 22 August 1973
Writing: Lock yourself away…
21 Aug
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”
~ AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
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HP Lovecraft (b. August 20): “Pleasure to me is wonder…”
20 Aug
“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.”
~ HP Lovecraft, b. 20 August 1890
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Ogden Nash (b. August 19): “You’re only young once…”
19 Aug
“You’re only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
~ Ogden Nash, b. 19 August 1902
Writing: Jonathan Franzen’s 10 rules…
17 Aug
1. The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
2. Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money.
3. Never use the word “then” as a conjunction–we have “and” for this purpose. Substituting “then” is the lazy or tone-deaf writer’s non-solution to the problem of too many “ands” on the page.
4. Write in the third person unless a really distinctive first-person voice offers itself irresistibly.
5. When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.
6. The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto biographical story than “The Metamorphosis”.
7. You see more sitting still than chasing after.
8. It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
9. Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
10. You have to love before you can be relentless.
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