Ni har säkert sett goda författarråd från en enkät i The Guardian på flera bloggar, alerta generösa Johanna på Författarcoachens blogg /Blogger förhindrar mig från att länka just nu men ni hittar henne i de bloggar jag brukar läsa!/ var förstås först med att tipsa. Det är härlig läsning. Här några smakprov som gör mig glad och hoppfull. Nu ska jag fundera på mina egna råd till mig själv.
Joyce Carol Oates
1 Don't try to anticipate an "ideal reader" – there may be one, but he/she is reading someone else.
2 Don't try to anticipate an "ideal reader" – except for yourself perhaps, sometime in the future.
3 Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
4 Unless you are writing something very avant-garde – all gnarled, snarled and "obscure" – be alert for possibilities of paragraphing.
5 Unless you are writing something very post-modernist – self-conscious, self-reflexive and "provocative" – be alert for possibilities of using plain familiar words in place of polysyllabic "big" words.
6 Keep in mind Oscar Wilde: "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
7 Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Annie Proulx
1 Proceed slowly and take care.
2 To ensure that you proceed slowly, write by hand.
3 Write slowly and by hand only about subjects that interest you.
4 Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
5 Rewrite and edit until you achieve the most felicitous phrase/sentence/paragraph/page/story/chapter.
harligt! att det ska vara sa svart att komma igang i vissa perioder!
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