Stephanie from Creature Bug kindly tagged me with the ROAR! For Powerful Words Award/meme. I am supposed to share three writing tips.
I will try. I don’t know if I have anything to add to the bazillion words already written about writing. It is known I don’t like to blog about blogging and I find it weird to write about writing.
Here are my writing tips:
1. Take risks. “But I’m not a poet! But I’m not a fiction writer!” You protest too much. Don’t be scared of failure. Your guts won’t be hated because your poem is iffy. You do other cool things.
2. Break the rules. The word on a page (or screen) is paint on a canvas. Sometimes your lady has three eyes and a nose on her knee. Ask Picasso. Sentence fragments.
3. Got writer’s block? So damn what. Go do something else for awhile. Then, when you get embroidery block, or the baking blahs, or any other form of burnout, writing will be there. I’m not a one-trick pony and neither are you.
Thanks, Stephanie. Not surprisingly, most of the people I’d tag for this meme have already been tagged. Whilst researching what ROAR! actually means, I found this colorful graphic which I am legally entitled to use as a recipient:
This is the best advice!
Steph
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I love your advice; it is the best kind of truth…the kind that makes me laugh.
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So inspiring and so true. Congrats on the award! Very much deserved.
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Now that you’ve publicly stated rule number one, the clock is ticking (and I am waiting) on your first fiction novel.
These are great rules! Especially your advice about writers block.
Thanks for sharing!
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PS: Love that ROAR! graphic. It’s a riot.
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Oh yes. I can go finish off a bag of corn chips and then blog about THAT. Perfect. 🙂 x 2
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Congratulations! Now THAT is an award you definitely want to display on the mantel.
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I think I have had embroidery block. I have certainly struggled with folding block, and cooking block, and speaking block. William Stafford’s advice, which often pops into my head, was “lower your standards and keep on writing.”
I use that advice on a lot of life.
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