Proof to See

"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out."
   - Author Unknown

Or to see what extra words are hiding in in your writings.


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Rite Right? Wrong Write

Rite Right? Wrong Write.
   - S.R. Lundin


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Watch and See

Read and watch, write and see.
- S.R. Lundin


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Relief of Silence

"Writing is a struggle against silence."

   - Carlos Fuentes

On the contrary, writing is relief from the noise of characters, stories, themes, plots, and ideas all clamoring for attention. Writing is a relief of silence.


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Totter Like the Rest of Us

"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium."

   - Norbet Platt

This is comforting for new authors. Out there is balance. Get up. Keep writing, especially after the effort to become a writer knocks the crap out of you. Until you regain your equilibrium, keep going; all you have to do is think shallow and totter like the rest of us.


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Favorite Book

If you have a favorite book, then you haven't read enough books.
    - S.R. Lundin


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Cridiots

"There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot."
   - L. Sprague de Camp


Excepting, of course, the professional opinions of deformed cridiots (critics who are idiots).


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Whisper Write

"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
- Logan Pearsall Smith (Afterthoughts)
Reading is like listening to your father. When he talks, you listen. When he shouts, you miss most of what he says. When he preaches, you think of your plans for later that night and, when he whispers, you never miss a word. Writers must use every voice if their whispers are to scream.

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No Refunds for Skipping

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip."

- Elmore Leonard

What is read today, though skipped last year, gets honored next month. Fickle fellows favor fashion, though astute authors are always audacious; they keep their pennies. They refund nothing for the parts readers skip.

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C.R.A.P.

"Be obscure clearly." - E.B. White

The king of clarity pushing obscurity? That's like a rapper singing country (country+rap= crap).


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