“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”—David Foster Wallace
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 22
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 21
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.”— Stephen King
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 20
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.”— Orson Scott
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 19
“I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.”— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 18
“I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times — once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.”— Bernard Malamud
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 17
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”— Augusten Burroughs
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 16
“I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.”— Chinua Achebe
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Jo Hawk The Writer
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 15
“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
The 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 14
“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 2021 Daily Writing Challenge – October 13
“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
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