Thirty-three Word Thursday

We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. 
— Henry James 


(NaNo stats: the cushion has left the building :( I've had a strange few days in which almost nothing has gotten accomplished. Once I tackle Mt. Laundry I will tackle Mt. Manuscript. I will conquer both clothes and word count if it kills me - huzzah!)


p.s. I hope the rest of you are doing better. Give me some motivation, spark that competitive streak - give me some word counts :D Who is whipping NaNo's tail!?

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Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter. 


— Leonard Michaels 


Do you find yourself doing this in your own writing? I know we all sit and search for the exact right word, but have you ever had an experience, whether with your own work or someone else's where you've read a line, and instead of it having a powerful impact, you think "okay, I (or that writer) am/is trying too hard"?


And how are all my NaNo peeps doing? For those not doing NaNo, how are your other projects or just life in general going?


I have actually surprised myself - I'm doing much better than I expected LOL

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Forty Word Thursday

It is worth mentioning…that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time…Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned.Determination not to give in…keep one at it more than anything. 


— Virginia Woolf






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Thirty-three Word Thursday

An artist must approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist. 
— Anton Chekhov

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Thirty Word Thursday x 2

Dialogue isn’t just quotation. It’s grimaces, pauses, adjustments of…buttons, doodles on napkins…crossings of legs…People communicate…with their faces, their bodies, their timing…the objects around them. Makes this a full conversation. Not just the words part.Conversations are like icebergs…Most of their weight, their mass, their meanings are under the surface. Make your readers feel…what’s above and…below, and you’ll have a story. 
— Jerry Stern 





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Thirty Word Thursday

Name names. Make your writing physical. Use lots of exact nouns. "Food" is an idea; "black-bean soup" is a thing. Naming…makes the writing more visceral… makes the reader trust you. 
— David Long

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Thirty Word Thursday

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. 
— Larry McMurtry 

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Thirty Word Thursday

[Near] perfection is achieved, not when there’s nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 
~ Antoine de Saint Exupery

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Thirty Word Thursday

What no wife, [husband, partner, friend, or significant other] of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. 
~Burton Rascoe

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Thirty Word Thursday

The labour of writing and rewriting...is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the 
beginning exactly what he wants to say.
~ G. M. Trevelyan

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Thirty Word Thursday

Love letters and poems [and novels] aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first. 


~Graycie Harmon (with a small addition from me) :D

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Thirty Word Thursday

"Writing is rewriting. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing."


Richard North Patterson

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Thirty Word Thursday...plus a few more :D With Lisa Amowitz

When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.
~Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)





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Lisa's Blog
Lisa on Twitter

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Thirty Word Thursday

The first essential is...Don't wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow."


Louis L'Amour

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Special Quote Day with Cole Gibsen

(Another taste of Katana - enjoy!!)


My heart dug into my chest like a jagged stone. This was crazy! I wasn’t supposed to die this way—diced to pieces by ninjas. It sounded ridiculous just thinking it in my head. “Kim,” I pleaded, “I don’t know what you think is going on, but it’s not true. I’m not a reincarnated warrior. I just got lucky before. I can’t fight. Don’t let them do this!”


His face was an expressionless mask. “There is no other way.” He bowed his head. “Kill her.”





Linkage!!

Cole's Blog
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Awesome Cole Youtube Video

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Thirty Word Thursday

Most people quit. If you don't...if you rewrite, if you keep publishing...you will understand that, "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"


~ Robert Lipsyte, on the secret to writing


Also, I am guest blogging today over at the awesome blog of Matthew Rush. The non-fiction query that caught the attention of my agent (and publisher) will be available for your viewing pleasure - so head over to The Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment to take a peek :) 


Tomorrow, you can see one of my fiction queries that garnered some interest. The book, however, failed to please, but the query worked well :)

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Thirty Word Thursday

Be daring....Don't labor over...works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.


~ Joyce Carol Oates

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Thirty Word Thursday

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. 


– Anais Nin




Brought to us by our author of the week, Christine Fonseca.



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Thirty Word Thursday

~From Advice To Writers, editor Jon Winkour -
("On avoiding too many subplots, unnecessary characters, and the urge to put all you know in one book:")


Make not your tale of accidents too full;
Too much variety will make it dull.
Achilles' rage alone, when wrought with skill,
Abundantly does a whole Iliad fill.
~  Florence King

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Thirty Word Thursday

Bret Easton Ellis, on Why You Write:


You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and 
your pen the things that intrigue you.

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