More Very Useful Wise Advice from Moody
Think of prose as sounds
There is this veil between human interaction, all of it, that is what I am interested in.
Four hours a day. 1500 words. (Much—thirty percent—will be useless the next day. What matters is practicing. Doing it every day. Only good can come form this and no bad can come from this way of life.
Your account of your life is potentially amazing to the people around you.
Writing is, for me, like having dinner. It’s what I do each day. It’s not going to not happen. Language is like breathing. It’s an essential thing.
Confidence and work ethic.
Always knowing today I will work.
Feeling competition among writers can be useful to production.
Write a story in 20 minutes. How much narrative can you pack in? go.
Reclaim a spot in your process where ethe writing is sheer play. The early sense oyu had when you began writing that this has to place in language.
For inspiration: visual art. Or silence.
Four hours. Fifteen hundred words. I have confidence I will get somewhere. To develop that kind of patience takes time.
Writing fiction is just like dreaming. Try writing in bed.
I’m never 100% content. This keeps me engaged in the work.
Read everything.
Worry about genre later. Big bang theory. Let it be created first. Then decide.
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