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Friday, August 28, 2009

Great Writing Advice

Really terrific Food for Thought. But not just for thought, for action. Sue Monk Kidd's Ten Most Helpful Things I Could Ever Tell Anyone About Writing. Click here for her list. I love #9:

Hurry slowly.

"Getting the pace of a story right keeps me up at night. I have a horror of sitting on a plane, next to someone reading my book, and seeing her flip over to see how many pages are left in the chapter. You want a reader so caught up in the spell of a story it would never occur to her to pull herself away and count how many pages she had to read before she could stop."

2 comments:

Lee said...

As usual, one thing led to another here. Your link is actually to Cynthia Lord's blog, which I liked in her story about 2nd grade, and I eventually went to the Kidd blog with her 10 Things, where I found this wonderful quote by someone I've never heard of: “I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing.” Said in talking about being observant. So thanks!

Augusta Scattergood said...

Thx, Lee. I think I fixed the link now and it goes to the 10 Things. Though I'm quite fond of Cynthia Lord's blog also so not necessarily a bad thing, this wandering from blog to blog...