Curation Wednesday: Risk-taking and Writing

http://ingridsundberg.com/2010/04/02/write-with-reckless-abandon/

Back in 2010, Ingrid Sundberg attended a writing conference and posted her notes from a session Four Rules on Risk Taking and Writing by author Libba Bray.

Some of the highlights:

1. Explore what we don’t know! We write to open up a whole new conversation with ourselves and the world.
2. Sit at the kitchen table with your characters. See what they would say.
3. Beware the thought “Should I….” Follow yourself and not what you think others may want you to be doing.
4. There is no sure thing other than writing the thing you want to write the most.
5. If it is not scary then there are no stakes. And if there are no stakes then it is not worth writing.

Thanks to Ingrid Sundberg for sharing this.