Crime Fiction Writing Research – It’s a Writer Thing
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Writing quote by Diana Gabaldon
“The more you do anything, the better you get at it. Guaranteed. Ballerinas aren’t born on their toes.”
~Diana Gabaldon
(Twitter 2014-01-21)
Choosing A Time Period For Your Historical Novel, by Adrian Goldsworthy | Writing Historical Novels
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Joanna Campbell Slan: How to Edit Your Work
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This seems like excellent advice. (Also, do read some of Johanna Campbell Slan’s work, if you like mysteries. I really enjoyed Cut, Crop & Die and I’m looking forward to reading more by JCS.)
Guide: Naming Months in Your Fictional Calendar
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Explaining too much…
When a writer tries to explain too much, he’s out of time before he begins.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Five common traits of good writers
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14 Writers Handwrite Their Writing Advice
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About Writing
In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasure also in the imagination of the story, the feeling that it could mean something. Mostly I was glad to find out that I could write at all. In writing you work toward a result you won’t see for years, and can’t be sure you’ll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.
Tobias Wolff
Writing teaches writing…
“What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.”
– Gail Sher
