An exchange took place on Twitter recently, between myself and a few other “tweeps” (Twitter ‘peeps’, for those who don’t know ;-))<\/p>\n
It went like this:<\/p>\n
Opening quote: “There isn’t any secret. You sit down and you start and that’s it.”<\/em> ~ Elmore Leonard <\/a><\/p>\n My reply: “Also, you then keep going,<\/em> i.e. “The way is easy: keep going. The way is hard: keep going. Keep going.<\/em>‘” ~ first heard from zen teacher Sensei Amala Wrightson<\/a> (<\/a>but it may have been a quote.)<\/p>\n Answering quote: “There’s a word for a writer who never quit: PUBLISHED.” ~ JA Konrath<\/a><\/p>\n Mind you, in response to the latter, Nick Mamatas<\/a> has the following to say earlier this year, in a post titled “Ten Bits of Advice Writers Should Stop Giving Aspiring Writers”<\/a>:<\/p>\n And yes, right there at No. 1 we have — Don’t Give Up<\/strong>: “… Most people should give up. Find out whether someone has any potential first before arbitrarily telling someone to waste years of their lives, and worse, moments of the lives of editors who have to look at their nonsense.”<\/em><\/p>\n So there you are, dear Sunday readers, make of it what you will! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n .<\/span><\/p>\n Personally though, I still *heart* last Sunday’s quote:<\/p>\n \u201cThere is nothing to writing. All you do is sit at the typewriter and bleed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u2013 Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An exchange took place on Twitter recently, between myself and a few other “tweeps” (Twitter ‘peeps’, for those who don’t know ;-)) It went like this: Opening quote: “There isn’t any secret. You sit down and you start and that’s it.” ~ Elmore Leonard My reply: “Also, you then keep going, i.e. “The way is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16826"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16833,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions\/16833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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