“Writing is easy.” Mark Twain

  • “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

    — Mark Twain

  • “This is a space for free wild mind writing that doesn’t need to be analyzed nor dissected. It’s about the practice of writing and tapping into that raw creative energy, just to keep our juices flowing.”

    — Christine Falcon

  • More often ‘writer’s block’ is a result of writers trying too hard to write a perfect novel in the first draft.  Nobody — no-freaking-body — writes a perfect first draft.” says Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker awards winner, author of 18 novels, including Joe Ledger thriller series, 30 non-fiction books, 1200 feature articles, 3,000 columns and writes projects for Marvel Comics.

    — Jonathan Mayberry: How I Write

    by Larry Atkins, The Writer magazine, October 2013

  • “I almost never start with inspiration. If you start to write a scene or an idea, if you can stick at that for 20 minutes, eventually you can get lost in the process and the creative function takes over. The imagination suddenly kicks in. You almost have to dive in and start to work, and eventually, if you get in the groove, you can flourish.

    — Amor Towles

    Amor Towles, author of Rules of Civility, interview by Hillary Casavant, November 2013 issue of The Writer magazine.

  • ” Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.”

    — Joe Hill

    Joe Hill, son of Stephen and Tabitha King, best writing advice his parents gave him, July/August 2013 Writers Digest Magazine.

  • Tell about some childhood memory, write it as carelessly, recklessly, fast and sloppily as possible. Forget about writing ‘writing,’ and about trying to please the teacher, tell what you remember spontaneously, impulsively.

    — Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write

  • “Dream, dream, dream it through. Write more with your body and less with your head. Don’t think a story through, don’t think it out. The danger in thinking it through is that most of us are not smart enough to do it that way. We have to go one moment at a time.”

    — Andre Dubus III

    – Andre Dubus III, in the November 2013 issue of The Writer magazine.

  • “Writing isn’t about the destination — writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.”

    — Sue Grafton

  • “First thoughts have tremendous energy. It is the way the mind first flashes on something.”

    — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

    Nat’s quote perfectly describes what a free write can do . . . opens us up to ideas and thoughts that lie within us.  Try it. Go to the prompts category here and choose a prompt, then write . . . freely. Just Write!