Writing Exercise: Good Writing Is ...

[rowyn]

Good writing engages both reader and writer. It entertains you and, while you're not looking, informs you. It doesn't just make you think: it makes you want to think. Good writing pulls you into the story until you think of the characters as your friends, and makes you miss them when the book is over. Good writing is internally consistent. It lets you know what its assumptions are, and sticks to them. Good writing is fun.

Comments

Repeat After Me

[barbx.livejournal.com]

***** INCOMING MESSAGE *****

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion; it is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning; it is by will alone I set my mind in motion....

***** END MESSAGE *****

I prefer chocolate, myself

[rowyn]

I must not sleep. Sleep is the mindkiller. Sleep is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my weariness. I will permit it to pass
over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see sleep's path. Where sleep has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.