 I try to get the right people assembled, give them right-sounding names and then I'm off and running. The characters have to interact. Sometimes, when there's a confrontation, I don't know which way it's going to turn out -- which character is going to come out of the house alive. Eventually, the character has to tell me." --Elmore Leonard
Add Comment Edit Brilliantly 05/27/10 08/08/2011
 It is perfectly okay to write garbage -- as long as you edit brilliantly." --C. J. Cherryh
Writing 05/26/10 08/08/2011
 "Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them." --Rosamunde Pilcher
Playing God 04/22/10 08/08/2011
 "The characters can own villas and yachts, and armies can be deployed at no cost. A novelist is limited only by his or her imagination. Writing a novel is a heady experience, for a novelist creates worlds and plays God." --Sidney Sheldon And people wonder why I write! Foolish 04/21/10 08/08/2011
 I've been working a lot on contest entries and writing synopses,etc. I read over my work get frustrated or just flat out wonder who the heck is ever going to want to read any of these stories and want to shove everything in a drawer and forget about it and move on to something new. And then I came across this quote: "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." --Cynthia Heimel Offerings 04/19/10 08/08/2011
 I love this quote! "Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer." --Barbara Kingsolver Sound of Dialogue 04/19/10 08/08/2011
 "I do a lot of talking to myself when I write, trying out the sound of dialogue. Neighbors must think I always have a roomful of company."--Tennessee Williams I read this quote and it made me laugh. This is me, to a tee. I laugh and I'm moved emotionally at my own work. A couple of years ago, I took a week off from work just to write. I wanted to get to "The End" of my MS and I knew I needed some uninterrupted time. So, my husband parked our travel trailer at one of the camping resorts we have membership to, gave me a kiss, patted the dogs on the head and left us there for the entire week. It was bliss. A whole week by myself to write—undisturbed. The only gadgets I took with me (besides my laptop) were my cell phone and I-Pod. There was no internet access, so I had no distraction with e-mail and surfing the net, etc. I didn't even have cell phone service unless I walked from the resort down the road and even then it was spotty and sometimes dropped calls. But I loved it! I got so much writing accomplished. I would sit at my table every morning and start writing. I would have to remind myself to take a break and walk the dogs. It was lovely. The only distractions I had were the other campers at the resort. And there were people outside of my trailer. Lots of older retired people who have time to travel around. They were coming and going. Moving trailers and whatnot. My dogs let me know anytime they felt someone was too close to my trailer. Then I began to notice who they were barking to. The park manager who kept coming onto my site to check...I don't know something?? Water my site, etc. My little patch of grass was flooded (I stepped out of my trailer into puddles of water) and a little sapling that was growing there drowned (poor little thing). Some of the older gentlemen were sitting outside my open trailer window at the next site. First it was just the old man that was parked next to me. One day, his wife tried to get him to come in and he kept putting her. In a moment...in a moment...just a moment...until she came out to see what he was up to and bring him inside with her. Next he had a friend or two sitting with him. My windows were open, but I didn't hear they talking. The only reason I knew they were out there was because my dogs would bark when someone new would approach. I still think back on that week and wonder. Did all those old men hang around my trailer because they were curious about what was going on inside my trailer? I read my work aloud and had been doing so all week. I had written some explicit, touching and funny scenes throughout those days. Had they been listening to my story? Or did they just think I was psycho? Hmm... Entered two MS into contests last week. Wish me luck! Going to need it... Persistence 04/06/10 08/08/2011
I read this quote and it hit home for me. "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success -- but only if you persist."--Isaac Asimov That Feeling 03/07/10 08/08/2011
Obsessions 03/04/10 08/08/2011
 "Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released." --Natalie Goldberg | Jaycee Keef
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