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You start with your imagination and heart. You get fired up about telling a story because you have a plot idea (a “what if?”) or a character idea, or both, and you're jazzed about seeing what happens. Here is where you play. This is where
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“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”
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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
Wendysue’s 2023 Year in Books
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