A Few Quotes from Flannery O’Connor… and some of my own:
Writing time---2 hours –let
nothing interfere.
Try arranging your novel backwards.
Do not take a year off.
Read some Shakespeare to limber up
your language.
Rewrite. Rewrite. Rewrite.
Never
speak colloquially. You will lower the tone.
Fully develop
your characters, as if they were a book to themselves.
Reread
favorite authors.
Read
your work out loud.
Roald Dahl, popular children's writer says, By the time I'm nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least 150 times.....good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this."
