Creative Writing Forum
Moderated by: Shadow of Truth
- Welcome to Creative Writing! :)
- Writing is a struggle against silence.
- There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
- You don’t understand an antagonist until you understand why he’s a protagonist in his own version of the world.
- Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
- Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
- There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
- You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
- One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
- You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
- The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
- The scariest moment is always just before you start.
- Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
- Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
- Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
- One-word sentences? Eliminate.
- The passive voice is to be avoided.
- Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
- Proofread carefully to see if you words out.
- If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
- A writer must not shift your point of view.
- Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
- Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
- Eye halve a spelling chequer.
- Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
- And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
- Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all.
- Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.
- Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
- Ernest Hemingway rewrote the ending of "Farewell to Arms" 39 times before he was satisfied.
- Don’t get it right. Get it written, then get it right.
- You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
- The only cure for writer’s block is insomnia.
- Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
- I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.
- There, their, they're. No need to be a grammar nazi.
- "I" before "E," except after "C." Weird.
- A run on sentence walks into a bar it is thirsty.
- A synonym ambles into a pub.
- The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.
- The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
- I am disappointment in your grammar.
- Bad grammar makes me [sic].
- "That's what." -She
- I. Like. How. When. You. Read. This. Your. Voice. Pauses. In. Your. Head.
- J. Alfred Prufrock: I'm not going to write you a love song.
- Semicolon- the most feared punctuation on earth.
- You had me at your proper use of, "You're."
- Pro tip: "I could care less" means that you actually do care.
- "Nonplus" doesn't mean what you think it means.
- First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!
- Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.
- Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
- Writing is its own reward.
- A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
- If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
- It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
- It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
- Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.