Writing Advice by Sarah Aronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1 For inspiration en-us 2018-01-02 22:16:03 UTC 2018-01-21 22:55:05 UTC hello@padlet.com MAKE IT SATURDAY. sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410174 2018-01-02 22:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410174 “So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410223 -Elizabeth Gilbert 

]]> 2018-01-02 22:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410223 “Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he’s a Navy SEAL: He hasn’t slept in days, he’s all hopped up on Red Bull, and he’s liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone “safe.” sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410275 -Elizabeth Gilbert ]]> 2018-01-02 22:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410275 “One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” -Annie Dillard sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410312 2018-01-02 22:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410312 PLAY!!!! sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410353 REIMAGINE!!!

NO EXPECTATIONS, please!]]> 2018-01-02 22:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410353 “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L'Engle sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410419 2018-01-02 22:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410419 “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” ― William Faulkner sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410455 2018-01-02 22:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410455 “The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” ― Stephen King sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410485 2018-01-02 22:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410485 “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ― Philip Pullman sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410515 2018-01-02 22:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410515 “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ― Anne Frank sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410544 2018-01-02 22:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410544 “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” ― Franz Kafka sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410595 2018-01-02 22:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218410595 “the primary and only necessary way of experiencing a work of literary art is not by “understanding” it in analytical terms; it is by thrumming to the work of art.” -Robert Olen Butler sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218658502 2018-01-04 00:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218658502 Write as well as you can, with as much heart as you can, whenever you can. Make sure there are people in your life who will have faith in your promise when you can’t. Get your writing in the world, ideally for the money you deserve because writing is work that deserves compensation. But do not worry about being closer to 50 or 65 or 83. Artistic success, in all its forms, is not merely the purview of the young. You are not a late bloomer. You are already blooming. -Roxane Gay sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218658574 2018-01-04 00:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218658574 “Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you’ve gathered.” -Jane Yolen sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218658667 2018-01-04 00:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218658667 “Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.” -Elizabeth Gilbert sarahnaronson https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218658716 2018-01-04 00:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahnaronson/w7bd9rrai6r1/wish/218658716