Sound Advice

[R Nitelight]

http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife/arts/books/story.html?f=/stories/20010426/544186.html

 

[Weird Harold]

3. If you hit a writer's block, stop and take a break. Try to keep breaks under ten years in length.

4. Have a muse. If none is apparent, hire one from the back pages of your local urban weekly magazine. Get a receipt.

I think these two are the best, but I could be wrong.

 

[cymbidia]

7. Good luck with the sex scenes. Again, write what you know (hee hee).

http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/wink/wink_2.gif I do this, slavishly.

 

[nitengale]

12. Do not write in public. Do not bring your laptop to Starbucks. Do not scribble in restaurants. Other people are eating. Unless your home has burned down. Unless you are, in fact, homeless. Writing should be done in the privacy of your own dank, personal hell.


Well, I do not agree with this one. I get some of the bulk of my writing done at work, in the nursery, between feedings, changing dirty diapers, and all the other technical nursey stuff. In fact, I have read aloud my stuff to many a fussy baby. They never once complained. Now I will say that many a night in there could be called "hell".