{"id":3781,"date":"2013-01-02T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2013-01-02T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:12:50","slug":"writers-insights-on-the-craft-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3781","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Insights on the Craft of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our often-visited websites is Advice To Writers, a collection of insights on the craft of writing, collected by Jon Winokur. From our recent surfing, we have selected five of our favourite writers\u2019 quotes posted in the past couple of months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe most solid advice . . . for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.\u201d \u2013 William Saroyna<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDevelop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music\u2014the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.\u201d \u2013 Henry Miller<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects\u2014nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs\u2014ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I&#8217;m most happy to be a writer.\u201d \u2013 Maya Angelou<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through like wet sand. But it is a pleasure to achieve, if one can, a clear running prose that is simple yet full of surprises. This does not just happen. It requires skill, hard work, a good ear, and continued practice.\u201d \u2013 Barbara Tuchman<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPeople on the outside think there\u2019s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn\u2019t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that\u2019s all there is to it.\u201d \u2013 Harlan Ellison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advicetowriters.com\/\">http:\/\/www.advicetowriters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our often-visited websites is Advice To Writers, a collection of insights on the craft of writing, collected by Jon Winokur. From our recent surfing, we have selected five of our favourite writers\u2019 quotes posted in the past couple of months. \u201cThe most solid advice . . . for a writer is this, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}