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Anne Stuart is writing about writing, publishing and her life for 40 days on her blog over here. I'll admit to not being a massive fan of her books (although I love how effortlessly she can set a tone or a scene), but she has some interesting anecdotes and it's nice to read about someone who has really managed to be a full-time writer consistently throughout the years.
She quote Annie Dillard on yesterday's post and I just loved it and had to share:
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
I know that I don't do this enough. I hoard ideas, thoughts, lines, characters, saying that I'll save them up and use them when it 'counts'. I'm trying not to do that anymore. Because chances are, I'll either forget what it was and then it will never get the chance to be out there on the page, being given the chance to grow or explored.
Also! It's April 25 and that means I can share this picture:
(I'm afraid I don't know the original source.)
Happy Friday! Wooo! ♥
She quote Annie Dillard on yesterday's post and I just loved it and had to share:
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
I know that I don't do this enough. I hoard ideas, thoughts, lines, characters, saying that I'll save them up and use them when it 'counts'. I'm trying not to do that anymore. Because chances are, I'll either forget what it was and then it will never get the chance to be out there on the page, being given the chance to grow or explored.
Also! It's April 25 and that means I can share this picture:
(I'm afraid I don't know the original source.)
Happy Friday! Wooo! ♥
