Month: October 2010

Writing formula: 0% inspiration, 100% concentration

Posted in Uncategorized by The Word Process on December 7, 2010 Edit This Recently, we had a query from someone who was having trouble writing because so many thoughts were clamoring for attention in his head that he couldn’t figure out which ones to get into words or how. We often have a similar problem: […]

Writers who don’t trust their readers are unlikely to have any.

Gerald tiptoed in a northward direction behind the blue, flowered couch across his darkened living room to the far end where the door to the baby’s room was slightly ajar so that his wife could hear if the baby issued the slightest peep which he had been doing several times a night. The baby’s nightlight […]

Readers are yahoos. Yes, that means you and gulp, us too.

“Marion doesn’t mean what she says,” a hypothetical book club member asserts in regards to a character in a fictitious book. “She really loves Andrew but she can’t say so.” “Where does it say that in the book?” asks the member of the book club who is also an editor. “Where does it say she […]