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Nov. 7th, 2014 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mithen--What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
Ray Bradbury has a wonderful passage in his book on writing about how "quantity produces quality"--that you can only get better by doing a LOT of something, so embrace writing huge amounts in order to end up with a little bit of good writing. It's kind of a positive take on Sturgeon's Law that "90% of everything is crap"--that probably includes my own writing so I'd better write as much as possible to make that 10% worthwhile. :)
Speaking of... I got a couple of very good blocks of writing in and am close to done with two more chapters, yay! With my Yuletide fic, I am deep in canon review, getting lots of ideas, and considering writing my recipient a small treat in the same fandom while I do the review (one of her suggestions would be writable now, but the one I really want to write I can't do until I've reviewed more recent canon!) How have things been for you this week?
Ray Bradbury has a wonderful passage in his book on writing about how "quantity produces quality"--that you can only get better by doing a LOT of something, so embrace writing huge amounts in order to end up with a little bit of good writing. It's kind of a positive take on Sturgeon's Law that "90% of everything is crap"--that probably includes my own writing so I'd better write as much as possible to make that 10% worthwhile. :)
Speaking of... I got a couple of very good blocks of writing in and am close to done with two more chapters, yay! With my Yuletide fic, I am deep in canon review, getting lots of ideas, and considering writing my recipient a small treat in the same fandom while I do the review (one of her suggestions would be writable now, but the one I really want to write I can't do until I've reviewed more recent canon!) How have things been for you this week?
