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Post by twyrch on Jul 13, 2006 10:13:13 GMT -5
All writers need encouragement now and then to keep from burning out. If anyone has some encouraging words to share, please feel free to add to this.
"I think writing is very much akin to the sword smithing of a katana.
First, the metal of your life must be refined and put through the fire. It must be clensed of impurity and seasoned with experience. Once your mettle is ready to be tested, then the writing begins. It is pounded over and over, then the metal is folded and the pounding starts again. Layer by layer, fold by fold, the blade becomes stronger, the edge better able to carry its fine edge.
Every page you write, every editing run, each layer, one by one - that is how good writers and good stories are forged. " ~ Michael J. Allen
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Post by CynanMachae on Jul 13, 2006 17:01:49 GMT -5
How many writers here are like me? I don't really care about money or popularity, but when I think about walking into a library or bookstore and seeing a book of mine, it gets me all excited. It makes me want to write passionately. Try it some time if your stuck in the writng world.
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Post by blixbrunner on Jul 13, 2006 20:37:12 GMT -5
Aye! I know the feeling. The hardest thing I find is that you kinda can't say you are a 'writer' until you have published. Until then I just sound like a 'dreamer'. This is hard because I love my book and want to share it, the characters, world etc with friends, even though it's only half done and not edited. I kinda want to let it out of my head and let other people be a part of it. I guess that is why I'm writing, I suppose I'm asking for some of the rewards of finishing before having finshed. But it's the encouragement to keep writing I'm looking for.
So for you other writers reading this "You go you good things, keep it up, write, love, smile and write again. It will all be worth it! Get your story out and in doing so, do something great!"
blix
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Post by twyrch on Jul 15, 2006 14:15:31 GMT -5
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.”
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”
"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
I write because I love to write... not for glory, fame or money. I write because that is the passion which burns within me; to take a chance that my story might one day be shared with the world, because when I am old, I do not want to look back on my life with regret that I never seized the day and lived in the moment.
Robin Williams had a lot of inspirational things to say in Dead Poet's Society.
“But only in their dreams can men be truly free It was always thus and always thus will be.”
"Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.”
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” ~ Robin Williams
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rhiannon
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Post by rhiannon on Mar 12, 2010 18:50:35 GMT -5
That quote by Robin Williams always makes me smile. I had someone basically snap at me about using weather in my opening paragraph. But the weather was essential to the foreboding situation my heroine would face. He called it amateurish. I doubt this guy even read further. So I won't change a word.
Writing is my way of escaping untenable situations. It kept me sane after my-ex boyfriend walked out of mine and my daughter's life forever. my characters are as much my family as my real family. As Terry Brooks says--I'm not all there. ;D
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