Welcome to Writer Wednesday!

Welcome to Writer Wednesday!

Because I’m trying to get a lot of writing done this week, today’s Writer Wednesday is a “Greatest Hits” collection of all the Writing Tips I post each week on my website’s home page. You know the little box in the corner that says “Writing Tip”? Ever notice that each week a new writing quote is posted there?

So below is a list of ALL the writing tips I’ve posted in that box each week. Enjoy!

(Keep reading after the jump to see my “Greatest Hits” collection of writing tips posted weekly since the new website launched earlier this year!)

WRITING TIPS (Greatest Hits Compilation)

Source: The Internets! 🙂

“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” Agatha Christie

“I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.” John Updike

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Douglas Adams

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” William Wordsworth

“Sure, it’s simple, writing for kids . . . Just as simple as bringing them up.” Ursula K. LeGuin

“Quite often somebody will say, ‘What year do your books take place?’ and the only answer I can give is, ‘In childhood.'” Beverly Cleary

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” Stephen King

“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.” Louise Brooks

“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” W. Somerset Maugham

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.” Rita Mae Brown

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.” Robert Frost

“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.” Nadine Gordimer

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” Rita Mae Brown

“I have to rewrite over and over again so that on average it takes me a year to write a book.” Avi

“Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.” NEIL GAIMAN

“I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.” Chaim Potok

“I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won’t have to wonder about my characters ever again.” Anne Tyler

“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Toni Morrison

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Hope you enjoyed today’s WRITER WEDNESDAY! Do you have any favorite writing quotes or tips you’d like to share in the comments section? If so, please do and I’ll post them in a future WRITING TIP box on my homepage!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s TUNA THURSDAY blog about my cats. And a reminder – for the month of September’s “FOOIE FRIDAY” blogs, we are celebrating the release of my friend Robin Mather‘s latest book, “The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)” (Ten Speed Press 2011). We have a two-part Q&A with her (to be posted Friday 9/9 and Friday 9/16, plus a special recipe from Robin on 9/23 and the winner announcement on Friday 9/30). We are going to give away a signed copy of her book at a random drawing to be held on Friday September 30th. So please read these Foodie Friday blogs all month and if you want to be included in the contest drawing, please post a comment on a Foodie Friday blog or email me with your contact info. (For more info on Robin Mather, go here: http://thefeastnearby.com/)

Until the next blog, Happy Writing! WRITE LIKE YOU MEAN IT! 🙂