{"id":43393,"date":"2025-10-16T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43393"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:29:27","slug":"another-great-quote-on-writing-from-ursula-k-le-guin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/10\/16\/another-great-quote-on-writing-from-ursula-k-le-guin\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Great Quote On Writing from Ursula K Le Guin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;I want the story to have a rhythm that keeps moving forward. Because that&#8217;s the whole point of telling a story. It&#8217;s got to move.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>~ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a>, 1929 &#8211; 2018<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27272\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Steering-The-Craft-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Steering-The-Craft-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Steering-The-Craft-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Steering-The-Craft.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since pace and momentum, as well as rhythm, are a triumvirate that&#8217;s always in the forefront of my mind when revising a manuscript, I could think of no better quote in the same week I <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/10\/13\/work-in-progress-update-section-3-of-part-2-of-the-wall-finale-done\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report on completing another WALL revision section<\/a> and moving on to the next two.<\/p>\n<p>On which note, back to it, with forward momentum very much in mind. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20854\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg\" alt=\"The-Chaos-Gate-The-Wall-Of-Night-Book-Four\" width=\"109\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg 54w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want the story to have a rhythm that keeps moving forward. Because that&#8217;s the whole point of telling a story. It&#8217;s got to move.&#8221; ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 &#8211; 2018 Since pace and momentum, as well as rhythm, are a triumvirate that&#8217;s always in the forefront of my mind when revising a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43393","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=43393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43396,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43393\/revisions\/43396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}