If you can be misread, you will be
Oh, how true this is! People love to read into what we write. They delight in finding the things that we didn’t mean to put in there, but that can be seen through someone else’s filter. And boy, can trouble result! Is it possible to avoid this? I guess extensive proof reading and editing will […]
“The craft of the sentence is important. But a perfectly crafted sentence with no passion is a well-dressed corpse. More fun to dance with a beggar than kiss a corpse”
I think this whenever I hear about people who complain that the ‘popular’ novel wasn’t really that good because it didn’t do this or that. It didn’t tick this box or underline that particular technique. But obviously it did something, because the public latched on to it and wouldn’t let go. And yes, I guess […]
Don’t say you’re trying to be a writer. If you’re writing then you are a writer. Publication is nice, but has nothing to do with the definition
I have a lot of trouble living up to this statement. Even when I was the editor of a magazine and writing for it as well, I was too ashamed to call myself a writer, mainly because I didn’t have a degree that said I could write. It can be difficult to consider yourself a […]