Five Great Quotations about the Writing Process

“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.” – Mark Twain

“I hate writing, I love having written.” – Dorothy Parker

“In the writing process, the more a thing cooks, the better.” – Doris Lessing

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness.” – George Orwell

“Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it’s going.” – Orson Scott Card

• 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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