Writing advice from Lydia Davis These are my main takeaways from her extensive list. Adapted from the essay “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits” in Essays One by Lydia Davis… Thank you to lithub.com for this list… Have a great weekend, readers. Me? Along with digital projects, I’ll be procrastinating in the kitchen…caramel-pecan-cranberry-apple pie is on the menu, as well as my first attempt at a kringle.
Writers Horoscope for November 5: Wisdom abounds today. If somehow JK Rowling’s rules of writing weren’t enough, or didn’t quite address your writing life, here is even more wisdom. In his lithub.com post, Joe Fassler provides seven of the most common writing tips, based on his conversations with 150 authors. The list includes: Neglect everything else. Beginnings matter. Sound it out. It’s supposed to be difficult. Read the rest of the article for the other three, as well as his expansion on each tip. Jeff Goins would approve of this clickable photo. ;->
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