Story Lab: Week 10
For this week's story lab I explored the blog, Advice to Writers.
The homepage opens to a quote from TS Eliot. Immediately intrigued, I know I am going to like this blog. The quote is actually a joke and I'm left feeling disappointed. I decide to jump to an quote entitled, "Writing is Hard Work, Not Magic." This quote is attributed to Suze Orman and is about defining the motivation behind why you are writing. I like that. Someday I want to be an author. Before I write my novel, whatever it will be about, I need to decide the message and meaning behind the intent of the book.
Neil Postman poses the question, "What Could Be Stranger than Writing?" Anthropologists call literary works a conversation that is both simultaneously held with no one and with everyone. I think that that is very poetic.
"Words Are to Be Taken Seriously," declares a quote in large red type. Toni Cade Bambara explains that words set things in motion and conjure images and feelings. They are not to be dealt with lightly.
Anne Bernays says that, "There's a Sureness to Good Writing." In her quote she uses a phrase that I really enjoy. It is, "words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise." I like this declaration because it reminds me that words have to power to both strike down and build up. They have the power to soothe and to anger. The same words formulated in a new pattern can be astonishing.
I skip a post called, "Think About What You Skip" because I feel ironic.
This was an interesting collection of quotes and thoughts about writing and its power.
Source: http://www.advicetowriters.com
The homepage opens to a quote from TS Eliot. Immediately intrigued, I know I am going to like this blog. The quote is actually a joke and I'm left feeling disappointed. I decide to jump to an quote entitled, "Writing is Hard Work, Not Magic." This quote is attributed to Suze Orman and is about defining the motivation behind why you are writing. I like that. Someday I want to be an author. Before I write my novel, whatever it will be about, I need to decide the message and meaning behind the intent of the book.
Neil Postman poses the question, "What Could Be Stranger than Writing?" Anthropologists call literary works a conversation that is both simultaneously held with no one and with everyone. I think that that is very poetic.
"Words Are to Be Taken Seriously," declares a quote in large red type. Toni Cade Bambara explains that words set things in motion and conjure images and feelings. They are not to be dealt with lightly.
Anne Bernays says that, "There's a Sureness to Good Writing." In her quote she uses a phrase that I really enjoy. It is, "words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise." I like this declaration because it reminds me that words have to power to both strike down and build up. They have the power to soothe and to anger. The same words formulated in a new pattern can be astonishing.
I skip a post called, "Think About What You Skip" because I feel ironic.
This was an interesting collection of quotes and thoughts about writing and its power.
Source: http://www.advicetowriters.com
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