Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Good Advice for writers and other artists from Neil Gaiman

I plan on trying to "keep the mountain in view".
Write everyday, blog almost everyday, and keep the narrative river flowing.
More of his writing tips after the jump:

Great list of writing tips
I enjoyed his quotes concerning writing, especially the following:


-I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

-When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.


-Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

More Gaiman quotes at:https://twitter.com/GaimanQuotes

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