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writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
writing names errors
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
editors want mail
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Amanda Hocking
editors brain firsts
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse. Robert Anton Wilson
editors giving likes
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it. Robert A. Heinlein
editors careers tree
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter. Michael Pollan
editors agents phases
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Margaret Haddix
editors facts readership
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have. Pat Oliphant
editors horror critics
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. Flannery O'Connor
editors biographies pleasure
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. George Plimpton
editors giving safe
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual. Gilbert K. Chesterton
editing reading-poetry needs
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. James Tate
editing trying rooms
Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up. Doug Liman
editing years people
Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works. Steve Martin
editing agonizing needs
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing. Mort Sahl
editing mind fiction
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. Isabel Allende
editing full involved open scientific
I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to editing scientific information. Dean Acosta
editing
You know what editing can do. The editing on that show can be so cruel.