5 Great Quotations about the Writing Process

“All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.” – Neil Gaiman

“You have to go where the book leads you.” – Stephen King

“When you write – explode – fly apart – disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.” – Ray Bradbury

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.” – Gertrude Stein

“I haven’t stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.” – Irwin Shaw

• 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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