"The trick to being truly creative, I’ve always maintained, is to be completely unselfconscious. To…"
“The trick to being truly creative, I’ve always maintained, is to be completely unselfconscious. To resist the urge to self-censor. To not-give-a-shit what anybody thinks. That’s why children are so good at it.” – A Short Lesson in Perspective …
3 Great Essays about Writing
3 Great Essays about Writing: tetw:
by David Foster Wallace
The Nature of the Fun – “A book-in-progress is a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around wanting love, wanting the very thing its hideousness guarantees it’ll…
Adjectives
Adjectives: nevver:
“Adjectives are frequently the greatest enemy of the substantive.” – Voltaire “[I was taught] to distrust adjectives as I would later learn to distrust certain people in certain situations.” – Ernest Hemingway “The adject…
explore-blog: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under…
explore-blog:
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”
E. B. White, echoing Tchaikovsky and adding to our running archive of famous advice on writing.