The Painted Word #41
Leave a comment with the advice you have the most trouble with. (Click an image for an Amazon link to a book by the author.)
1.
Forget grammar and think about potatoes.
(Gertrude Stein)
2.
Don’t write what you know. Start with what you know and invent from there. (Ernest Hemingway)
3.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. (Aristotle)
4.
“The cat sat on the mat” is not the beginning of a story, but “The cat sat on the dog’s mat” is. (John le Carré)
5.
There is no secret to success. Rise early and work hard. That’s the only secret. (Phillip Glass)
BONUS!
A real writer doesn’t need lame advice from other writers. (William Shakespeare, maybe)
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I have no problem forgetting grammar, but I’d rather not think about potatoes.
Never pay to play, just play for pay.
So a life can’t be a whole, a work of art; it is only presence. But while experiencing life you can copy a bit of it outside of your life, decide its boundaries and new location, and call it art—a symptom, sublimation, simile, synechdoche, suppliment—or a shart!
Just don’t call it late for dinner!