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| Write to music ... but not just any music. Chose music or even recorded sound effects and nature sounds that evoke the setting of your story, or that your character would enjoy, and let the sounds help you set the scene or capture the character. Sue Burke End your writing session with an unfinished sentence, so that you have an obvious place to start the next time you sit down to write. It will help you focus immediately. Joanna Gould For scripts: Pin or tape the log-line (or "what if...") on top of your computer screen, and never deviate from it. Mike Murphy Don't do the dishes (the washing up)! They can stay dirty for a while. Carol Clouse Complete your project and don't stop before you're done to work on new ideas that come to you suddenly. If they are good enough, they will come back. Ramón Goméz Sánchez 1. Keep a hand-held tape recorder with you at all times – in the car, on the bus, beside the bed, etc. – to make a note of ideas as they come to you. 2. Stop worrying that people might think you're talking to yourself, and USE IT! Gwyneth Box Truman Capote said: "The scissors are a more important tool to the writer than the pencil." Phil Sutton Read a lot, mainly books on controversial or hardly heard subjects. This serves you in two ways: First, they make you think; second, they give you good food for your brain. Manuel Coruejo Listen now. When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking about what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. Ernest Hemingway (does not come to meetings) The Madrid Writer's Critique Group. Writers with work in progress and a view toward publication welcome. Contact by e-mail: sueburke@compuserve.com |
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Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb |
The life so short, the craft so long to learn. Hippocrates |
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