What's the best writing tip anyone's ever given you? What six little words have changed the way you think about writing or helped you overcome writer's block?
Share the best writing advice you've ever gotten right here in six words!
(If you're not totally clear on what a six-word memoir is, check out SMITH magazine, where the six-word memoir project was born, as well as the thread for the "Why I Write" contest we held in 2010--then come back here and contribute!)
Tags: inspiration, memoir, nonfiction
Permalink Reply by Caryl on Believe it or not, the following advice has been VERY helpful to me- it made my writing tighter. And it can apply to this challenge (lol):
"Pay attention to requested word count."
Permalink Reply by Kathryn Edgecombe on Sit down, shut up and write!
Permalink Reply by Veronica Williams on Words to live by!! Yes!!
Permalink Reply by Grace Peterson on These are all really good however, I think Maya Davis' rings most true for me.
Write what you want to read.
Permalink Reply by Lindasusan Ulrich on Writers write. So sit down -- write.
Permalink Reply by Caroline Bock on Read. Read. Read. Read. Read. Read.
Truly, author of LIE.
Permalink Reply by Cydny Rothe on First draft -- let 'er rip.
Permalink Reply by B. Lynn Goodwin on Write daily. Write badly. Revise thoroughly.
Lynn
Author of You Want Me to Do WHAT? Journaling for Caregivers
Permalink Reply by Lisa Pollard on get out of your head.
Keep writing without editing a thing.
Permalink Reply by Ayla Liden on Yes indeed. That is one I engage in!
Permalink Reply by Dinah Dietrich on just keep writing--read a lot
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