“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.” – Richard Wright
“The writer’s silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.” – Khaled Talib
“There’s a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You don’t lead a story. You follow it.” – Kate Inglis
“Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written.” – Vincent H. O’Neil
“Getting completely lost, coming unstrung and unbound, arriving at unknown and unexpected places, is, for me, a critical part of writing.” – Louise DeSalvo
• Follow a “process” when writing your story
• The “thinking step” when writing your book
• Drafting: Write on paper or type on computer?
• Draft rarely perfect after first go-round
After you’ve brainstormed some ideas and made an outline of how you might organize those thoughts into a story or nonfiction piece, the next step is get busy “drafting.”
• A finished draft beats a perfect draft
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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