{"id":249,"date":"2005-04-30T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/30\/writing-links-and-angst\/"},"modified":"2005-04-30T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T13:28:00","slug":"writing-links-and-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/30\/writing-links-and-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Links and Angst"},"content":{"rendered":"

lists Thirty-Two Statements About Writing<\/a>, which are thought-provoking. (via )<\/p>\n

This one:<\/p>\n

14. Language is more important than you think. It is not a tool, it is, in the end, the sum of literature. Language has a taste, a texture, a smell. If a painter used only beige, white, and grey, the viewer’s eye would slide off the canvas and start examining the wall. Strive for eggplant, oxblood, and burnt sienna.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

is something I still need to work on quite a bit. I don’t believe language is “the sum of literature” (I’m in this gig for the stories), but I want to write pretty. Not McKillip-pretty, but prettier than my natural black-and-white literalism.<\/p>\n

I do disagree with her on revision and workshops. I need both. A lot. But really, numbers 31 and 32 are the most important (esp. 31), and I can’t argue with those.<\/p>\n

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Writer angst:1. Thriller writer with huge first advance ends up in death spiral of sales<\/a> (via )
\n2. Holly Lisle is in trouble again<\/a>, after more than 20 published novels.<\/p>\n

I don’t know their sales numbers, obviously. The bit that worries me is this: Not only does a book have to be “good enough”, it has to be Spectacular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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