I’m interested in getting your thoughts about stuff I see and hear, quotes I read, stuff that passes as knowledge – and starting an authorey conversation.
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Robert Frost sums up the art of writing very well. I think my writing day has been exceptionally good if I have been moved to tears or delightfully surprised by something my characters have done…
I love Robert Frost. I’m not sure if you caught that I referenced one of his poems in Ruby Slips. He had a house in my hometown in New Hampshire. Like someone said above, my characters lead my stories. I like to be surprised by them. My husband, who is not a writer, thinks I need to outline out my entire story before I write. I don’t do this. I have ideas of things that might happen and a general way it might go, but it doesn’t always work out that way. I think you had a blog post about this before, but sometimes it is difficult to keep two characters apart. In my Weaver series, I do kill off a character (which is a little bit of a surprise for me and the reader), but that is thanks to my husband because he said someone has to die.
I have no problem with mapping things out in a general way and then taking a better path if it appears to you. The problem most writers have is they have no idea where anything is going to go so they can’t get there. And they stop.
Frost was absolutely right. The writer has to have the passion to put words to paper, and then cry (or at least choke up) when s/he reads them. When you write something straight from your heart, it’s good.
Not only that but readers can tell. They connect. I don’t know how. I don’t understand it. But time after time when I really open up, they somehow innately understand the honesty in the words and they go there with you. That makes it real and that builds a bond.
Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
Thank you!
Robert Frost sums up the art of writing very well. I think my writing day has been exceptionally good if I have been moved to tears or delightfully surprised by something my characters have done…
No doubt. I like the way he boiled it down to the essentials.
One of my favorite quotes, too. I’m pretty easily moved by what I read/see…so, if I’m not moved by what I write, there’s no way anyone else will be.
Yep. Great point.
I love Robert Frost. I’m not sure if you caught that I referenced one of his poems in Ruby Slips. He had a house in my hometown in New Hampshire. Like someone said above, my characters lead my stories. I like to be surprised by them. My husband, who is not a writer, thinks I need to outline out my entire story before I write. I don’t do this. I have ideas of things that might happen and a general way it might go, but it doesn’t always work out that way. I think you had a blog post about this before, but sometimes it is difficult to keep two characters apart. In my Weaver series, I do kill off a character (which is a little bit of a surprise for me and the reader), but that is thanks to my husband because he said someone has to die.
I have no problem with mapping things out in a general way and then taking a better path if it appears to you. The problem most writers have is they have no idea where anything is going to go so they can’t get there. And they stop.
If I’m not laughing at my short stories myself, I don’t post them!
Can’t argue with that!
Frost was absolutely right. The writer has to have the passion to put words to paper, and then cry (or at least choke up) when s/he reads them. When you write something straight from your heart, it’s good.
Not only that but readers can tell. They connect. I don’t know how. I don’t understand it. But time after time when I really open up, they somehow innately understand the honesty in the words and they go there with you. That makes it real and that builds a bond.
Yes! So when the writer puts his or her passion to words, somehow readers understand and connect. Pretty wonderful when that happens.
It really is.
As I have heard it said.. People buy people, not books..
Interesting. You may be on to something there!