I have taught writing classes for years and
been told by many students how much I have helped them on
their own writing path with what I’ve shared. I’d like to
share with you, as well, so I’ve included a couple of free
samples below--hope they help.
I have written a workbook--Rainbow Writing: Writer’s Blocks
You Can Use--that my students use in my novel plotting and
writing classes. Writer’s Blocks takes you from the first
glimmer of a novel idea to the completed manuscript to sending
query letters and a synopsis.
I am currently working on adding explanatory text (the part I
present in the classes) and will be selling the revised
edition beginning in the summer of 2004. Though if you find
you like the forms I’ve provided free and find you get value
from them and want to order the workbook, as is, you can do so
for a discount price of $10 plus $2 shipping and handling.
Happy writing trails to you! And may we
meet again!
DOWNLOAD
FREE ‘BAITING THE HOOK'
DOWNLOAD FREE ‘CHARACTERS AT A GLANCE'
Below are some awesome
writer’s quotes! Enjoy!
E-mail me at
heather@heatherhorrocks.com to sign up for regular writing
quotes/tips.
Rainbow Writing - Great
Quotes by Authors
"I can fix a bad page, but
I can’t fix a blank page." (Nora Roberts)
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best
I can.
Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
(Ernest Hemingway)
"To me the greatest pleasure of writing is
not what it's about,
but the music the words make." (Truman Capote)
"You see things as they are and ask 'Why?'
I dream of things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
(George Bernard Shaw)
"You have to write whichever book it is that wants to be
written.
And then, if it's going to be too difficult for grown ups,
you write it for children." (Madeleine L'Engle)
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it
with a club." (Jack London)
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as
they tangle with human emotions." (James Michener )
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me
the glint of light on broken glass."
(Anton Chekhov)
"Don't say the old lady screamed -bring her on and let her
scream." (Mark Twain)
"Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they
close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so
when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must
turn one more page. When people tell me I've kept them up all
night, I feel like I've succeeded." (Sidney Sheldon)
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader."
(Robert Frost)
"Cut out all those exclamation marks.
An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke." (
F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"If you wish to be a writer, write." (Epictetus)
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get
it right the first time,
unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better,
find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
(Robert Cormier)
"Books aren't written -they're rewritten. Including your
own.
It is one of the hardest things to accept,
especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it."
(Michael Crichton)
"The difference between the right and the nearly right word
is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug."
(Mark Twain)
"This morning I took out a comma, and this afternoon I put
it back again." (Oscar Wilde)
"The wastebasket is the writer's best
friend." (Isaac Singer)
"My most important piece of advice to all you would be
writers:
when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip."
(Elmore Leonard)
"When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean
utterly, but kill most of them then the rest will be
valuable." (Mark Twain)
"You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material
before you are comfortable in this medium.
You might as well start now and get the work done.
For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality."
(Ray Bradbury)
"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely
essential." (Jessamyn West)
"This manuscript of yours that has just come
back from another editor
is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected.
Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can
appreciate my work'
and it has simply come back stamped 'not at this address.'
Just keep looking for the right address." (Barbara
Kingsolver)
"The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the
pants to the seat of the chair."
(Mary Heaton Vorse)
"There are three rules for writing a novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." (William
Somerset Maugham)
"When I was a young boy they called me a liar.
Now that I'm all grown up, they call me
a writer."
(Isaac Singer)
"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem
like a solid, stable business." (John Steinbeck)
"We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about."
(Richard Peck)
"The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one
should put in first." (Pascal)
"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of
ending." (Longfellow)
"The best time for planning a book is when you're doing the
dishes." (Agatha Christie)
"Plot springs from character... I've always sort of
believed that these people inside me these characters know who
they are and what they're about and what happens,
and they need me to help get it down on paper because they
don't type." (Anne Lamott)
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