July 2009
Absolute Write →
Absolute Write is a comprehensive informational Website for writers of all levels. Absolute Write offers articles and information about fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, freelancing, and copywriting. In addition, we provide information about editing, publishing, agents, and market research. You’ll find links to classes, software, and a large and active online community of writers and...
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“It’s better to write about things you feel than about things you know...”
– L. P. Hartley
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“Writing counts.”
– Allyson Dickey
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“Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is...”
– Michael Crichton
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“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to...”
– Samuel Johnson
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of...”
– Henry David Thoreau
13 blogging lessons learned from Stephen King’s On...
Stephen King’s book On Writing is a very good read. It is targeted towards writers and wanna-be writers, but it is a very inspiring book for anyone.
As bloggers are writers, this book can teach you several lessons and can inspire you in your blogging. Here are the 13 lessons I have picked up from reading Stephen King’s On Writing.
Just start it. Whatever you plan or wish to do, just start doing...
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
– Richard Bach
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde (via aeropuertos) (via fuckyeahreading) (via elethoniel)
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
She Writes: new social networking site for women... →
Twitter chats for writers →
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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe...”
– William Saroyan
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“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become...”
– Frank Outlaw
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The Writer Ritual
As a writer, you are probably prone to ritual. Writers often look for regularity in the way they approach the writing “desk.” We so often enter the writing frame of mind with a coffee in hand and a Moleskine journal propped on our leg, poised to capture the imperative thought.
What is important is the recognition of our rituals. It is the ritual that prepares our mind for the writing task ahead....
