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Women born between 1945 and 1964 who write about and are interested in contributing material about their lives- then and now.
Talking Prose
"The writing's not important." Have you ever heard someone say that? Someone with a writing blog, someone styling themself a guru of the writing industry. . .someone who should know better?
I have. It's BULL. If the writing weren't important, hey, you wouldn't want to be a writer, now, would you?
So today Roz Morris & I are holding our third weekly editorial chat, this time all about that all-important writing:
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Comment by Victoria Mixon on April 20, 2011 at 1:19pm -
You know, I googled that darn quote (I actually have no idea who said it), and got three responses: two for Wilde, one for Flaubert. And one of the ones for Wilde was me.
If anyone knows who actually said it, please! educate us.
Yes, Hemingway and the one true sentence. He said some absolutely lovely things about writing.
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Comment by Cathy Kozak on April 20, 2011 at 1:15pm -
She Writers! Take heed of this wonderfully informative series which raises the bar for how-to-write sites.
I love Wilde’s quote about the comma. I think it was Hemingway who said, ‘”Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.” and this advice works well for me in my revisions. If I can polish just one good, albeit cluttered and confused, sentence into the brilliant jewel I know it can be, then I’m satisfied, and when I’m satisfied I am wild to move on to the challenge of the next true sentence...
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