{"id":483,"date":"2017-05-16T23:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shortspark.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2017-05-16T23:16:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:16:24","slug":"45-top-tips-new-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortspark.com\/45-top-tips-new-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"45 Top tips for new writers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Before I get going on tips for new writers, I\u2019ll start with this quote, which pretty much sums up how I feel after delving deep into the advice dished out on the highways and byways of the internet.<\/p>\n
There is advice that appears common sense, advice that is truly great, and advice that no-one can agree on.<\/p>\n
That being said, here are the tips for new writers that made it into my top 45:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they\u2019re happy.\u201d \u2015 Dorothy Parker<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories \u2014 science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.\u201d \u2015 Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n
\u201cTo all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: \u2018Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.\u2019 I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will find that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.\u201d \u2015 Bertrand Russell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before I get going on tips for new writers, I\u2019ll start with this quote, which pretty much sums up how I feel after delving deep into the advice dished out on the highways and byways of the internet. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. \u2015 W. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n