Author Steaphan Kay :verfox: · @steaphan
547 followers · 941 posts · Server indieauthors.social"If you don't know the trees, you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories, you may be lost in life."-- Siberian proverb
Book: My Autobiography. John Agard. 2015.
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Author Steaphan Kay :verfox: · @steaphan
548 followers · 964 posts · Server indieauthors.social"Without being explicit at all, it’s possible to give a story a strong feeling of sensuality. This is done principally—and paradoxically—by practicing restraint, just as you do when depicting strong emotion.
You don’t lard on adjectives, or even verbs. You pick precise details and use beautiful imagery— which is a lot of work but worth it. "
From: I give you my body . . . how I write sex scenes , Diana Gabaldon
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Author Steaphan Kay :verfox: · @steaphan
545 followers · 970 posts · Server indieauthors.social"With ardent yearning, youth seeks life's grand prize,
While elder spirits guard their cherished ties.
Time's tender caress reveals a poignant scene,
Of relentless pursuit and triumphs pristine."-- S.Kay
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Author Steaphan Kay :verfox: · @steaphan
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Author Steaphan Kay :verfox: · @steaphan
516 followers · 1230 posts · Server indieauthors.social"As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out."--Mark Twain
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Author Steaphan Kay :verfox: · @steaphan
511 followers · 1255 posts · Server indieauthors.social"Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."--Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Author Steaphan Kay :verfox: · @steaphan
498 followers · 1708 posts · Server indieauthors.social"Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed."--Alex Garland
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Author Steaphan Kay :verfox: · @steaphan
495 followers · 1692 posts · Server indieauthors.social“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit-detector [with an on-off switch.]” Ashley Hope Pérez's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's quote.
https://ashleyperez.com/2010/12/the-most-essential-gift-for-writers-hemingways-shit-detector/
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Michael Crane · @mdrabbles
113 followers · 1710 posts · Server mastodon.social
One of my absolute favorites.
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Michael Crane · @mdrabbles
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BayAreaFan19 · @LeslieP
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RT @becausemybooks@twitter.com
Read more, stay sharp!
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/becausemybooks/status/1613543928283955203
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
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“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” - Salvador Dali
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
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"The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material." - Jennifer Egan
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
664 followers · 631 posts · Server mastodon.social
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.” – Kurt Vonnegut
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
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“Show your reader their worst fear happening to a character, then show how the character survives that fear, and your reader will love you.” – Chuck Palahniuk
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
664 followers · 631 posts · Server mastodon.social
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.” - Zadie Smith
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
664 followers · 631 posts · Server mastodon.social
"Take a writer away from his typewriter, and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning." - Charles Bukowski
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
483 followers · 347 posts · Server mastodon.social
Salman Rushdie, discussing why he has never written an apolitical book:
"Sometimes your character is not your destiny. Sometimes a plane flying into a building is your destiny. The larger world gets into the story not because I want to write about politics, but because I want to write about people."
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
664 followers · 631 posts · Server mastodon.socialSalman Rushdie, discussing why he has never written an apolitical book:
"Sometimes your character is not your destiny. Sometimes a plane flying into a building is your destiny. The larger world gets into the story not because I want to write about politics, but because I want to write about people."
#writingcommunity #writingtips #writing #storytelling #screenwriting #authorquotes #SalmanRushdie
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Cole Haddon · @colehaddon
479 followers · 339 posts · Server mastodon.social
George Saunders on the role of editing in his work and potentially yours, which he describes as "freakification":
“What if we understood ‘editing’ not to be “correcting” but ‘revealing’ – revealing a new voice. And not a voice that we are ‘aiming for’ or that ‘sounds like us,’ in which we ‘tell our truths,’ but just one that is more interesting? Harder to ignore?" 1/2
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