Why is remembering to post on the blog somehow harder than writing a novel in itself?
Anyway!
I’ve been trying to write a draft of this new story I’ve {Sort of} come up with. I decided looking up quotes from famous amazing authors to help inspire me.
I’ll share a few.
{I’m sure we’ve used some of these over the years, but still. It’s nice to read something inspiring. Especially when you’re not feeling inspired by your own ideas}
“Cut out all those explanation marks. An explanation mark is like laughing at your own joke.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Laugh at your own jokes.”- Neil Gaiman.
“If you are using dialogue- Say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.” -John Steinbeck
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”- Stephen King.
{I think this is him giving me permission to murder everyone in my book}
“The historian records, but the novelist creates.”- E. M. Forster
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”- George Orwell
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” -Robert Frost
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”- Neil Gaiman
“You can make anything by writing.”- C.S Lewis
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”- Jack London
And with that, I better go hunt some inspiration down for myself!
Happy writing!!
Throwing Up Words 