Quote: Charlie Jane Anders on Sentences for Fiction
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People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence that actually works: a sentence that carries the reader forward from the previous sentence.
— Charlie Jane Anders, The Only Kind of Sentence You Should Use in Your Fiction
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Quote: Kelly Sue DeConnick on Feminism in Her Writing
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I don’t actually set out to write political pamphlets. I’m always writing story first, and even before that I’m always writing character first – everything is born of character. But I think that I have some very strong feelings about some things; in particular, ideas of fairness and justice.
Quoting Chuck Wendig on defending your time for work
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Some great advice from Chuck Wendig to start your new year.
As a writer, everyone wants a piece of you. They treat the act of writing as an unserious endeavor, failing to see it as the result of the three corners of art, craft and work.
Quote: Salman Rushdie
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Man is the animal that tells stories about himself to himself.
— Salman Rushdie, Lecture at the University of Iowa (March 2004)
It’s been years since I sat in that lecture hall, but Rushdie’s description of humans as storytelling creatures still gets me with it’s perfect simplicity.