cj Sez: Maybe one of these quotes will be helpful as you strive to
keep on keeping on writing:
“It is perfectly okay
to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.” –C. J. Cherryh
“Almost all good
writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.” –Anne
Lamott
“If it sounds like
writing, I rewrite it.” –Elmore Leonard
“Easy reading is damn
hard writing.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne
“If I waited for
perfection…I would never write a word.” –Margaret Atwood
“To survive, you must
tell stories.” –Umberto Eco
“A professional writer
is an amateur who didn’t quit.” –Richard Bach
“Good writing is
rewriting.” –Truman Capote
“I try to create sympathy for my characters,
then turn the monsters loose. –Stephen King
“It’s none of their
business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
–Ernest Hemingway
“If you can tell
stories, create characters, device incidents, and have sincerity and passion,
it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” –Somerset Maugham
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“You do it a day at a
time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under
submission, you never leave it at home.” –James Lee Burke
“E.L. Doctorow said
once that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as
far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have
to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything
you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of
you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have
ever heard.” – Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.)
“The most important
things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b)
most of it isn’t very interesting.” –Stephen King
“Writing—the art of
communicating thoughts to the mind, through eye—is the great invention of the
world.” –Abraham Lincoln
A
personal request: I would really
appreciate your vote for Choosing Carter
in the Author Shout Cover Wars challenge...if you're so inclined and the cover
appeals to you. This is kind of a cross between a beauty contest and a
popularity contest. You can vote once a day beginning today through 8 a.m. EST
next Sunday, Feb. 28.
Stop
by http://authorshout.com/cover-wars/ to
vote and/or share this page so that all your friends can vote. Thanks for your
help!
Okay, you-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do
the same.
cj
cjpetterson@gmail.com
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