by Sandra Smith | Aug 2, 2021 | tips for writers
Every morning, I get some wonderful snippets of advice from well-established writers, and here’s the one for today:“The hardest thing about writing, in a sense, is not writing. I mean, the sentence is not intended to show you off, you know. It is not supposed to be...
by Sandra Smith | Aug 2, 2021 | tips for writers
“If you want to write, it must be the thing not that you want to do, or would like to do. It must be the thing you feel you have to do. It must be that without which you could not live. If you’ve got that, then it’ll be all right.” CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThis is so true...
by Sandra Smith | Aug 2, 2021 | Advice for writers from writers
What do bananas have to do with a writer’s unreasonable fear of repetition?I am going to be posting some quotes I get from “Advice For Writers” which I find useful and helpful. This one is especially funny since I spent six months in Guatemala and all over Honduras...
by Sandra Smith | Aug 2, 2021 | Advice for writers from writers
“You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven’t before?” John L’Heureux I love this...