Post by churnage on Dec 31, 2012 15:57:45 GMT -5
One of the best blogs on writing is Terrible Minds created by the funny, profane and amazing word-magician Chuck Wendig... He's got a great post up today. Here are a few excerpts. For the rest, go to: terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/12/31/25-writer-resolutions-for-2013/
5. Have A Fucking Point
Every story is an argument. Have the argument on the page. Give it to the audience. Make the case for why love conquers all – or why love can suck a big quivering tube of elf dick. It’s not about being preachy; it’s about threading your fiction with theme and meaning.
7. Stop Letting Passion Ferment Into Poison
Passion can be a paintbrush — or it can be a gun. It can be a warm cup of go-go juice or an icy syringe jacked up with blowfish toxin. Passion is a horse that either carries you racing across the sunlit plains or stomps you bloody into the mud...
12. Find Comfort In Discomfort
Fuck safety. Jump, then stitch the parachute on the way down. Comfort is the enemy of good fiction. As an author, seek some measure of discomfort — put it into your work, try new things, challenge yourself to take the difficult path because that is the path that will yield greater reward. Hell, break a drinking glass and pepper your office chair with the shards so that you’re experiencing constant enlightening buttock pain. *receives note from the official terribleminds lawyer* Oh, umm, wait, yeah, don’t do that last part. Just do the other things.
5. Have A Fucking Point
Every story is an argument. Have the argument on the page. Give it to the audience. Make the case for why love conquers all – or why love can suck a big quivering tube of elf dick. It’s not about being preachy; it’s about threading your fiction with theme and meaning.
7. Stop Letting Passion Ferment Into Poison
Passion can be a paintbrush — or it can be a gun. It can be a warm cup of go-go juice or an icy syringe jacked up with blowfish toxin. Passion is a horse that either carries you racing across the sunlit plains or stomps you bloody into the mud...
12. Find Comfort In Discomfort
Fuck safety. Jump, then stitch the parachute on the way down. Comfort is the enemy of good fiction. As an author, seek some measure of discomfort — put it into your work, try new things, challenge yourself to take the difficult path because that is the path that will yield greater reward. Hell, break a drinking glass and pepper your office chair with the shards so that you’re experiencing constant enlightening buttock pain. *receives note from the official terribleminds lawyer* Oh, umm, wait, yeah, don’t do that last part. Just do the other things.