“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.”— John Steinbeck
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Jo Hawk The Writer
“Voice is not just the result of a single sentence or paragraph or page. It’s not even the sum total of a whole story. It’s all your work laid out across the table like the bones and fossils of an unidentified carcass.”— Chuck Wendig
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Jo Hawk The Writer
“The story must strike a nerve in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk.” — Susan Sontag
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Jo Hawk The Writer
“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”—Andre Gide
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Jo Hawk The Writer
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”—Ernest Hemingway
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Jo Hawk The Writer
“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.”—Larry L. King
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Jo Hawk The Writer
Did you write yesterday?
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Did you write yesterday?
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
I spent most of last week with a big push to finish the assignments for my class. I must admit it was fun focusing on nothing other than writing. But it also meant real-life responsibilities suffered, and this week, therefore, I spent my “extra” hours correcting my previous inattention. Yesterday was also a family member’s birthday, and I am happy to report, everyone had a good time. Now that things have returned to a dull roar, I am eager to return to a more balanced routine.
There is a small voice in my head urging me to reevaluate my idea of “balance.” The voice may be small, but it hides a lot of strength. I discovered a ten-ton weight resting on the writing side of the scales.
I always remember my number one writing priority. My core habits are strong, and writing a little every day is my secret weapon. Yesterday I wrote 0 words.
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Jo Hawk The Writer
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time–proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan
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Jo Hawk The Writer
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