- Nov 07, 2020
Writing Quotes
The craft and habit of writing.
This set covers a filmmaker tracing an early comedic style back to college years, and advice that writing something and deciding to publish it are two separate decisions entirely. For more on the finished product, see Book.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very visual person when it comes to writing music. I like to see something besides just a script, even if it's just a storyboard or pictures from the set.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help with the words.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
- Nov 07, 2020
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.
- Preparation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
- Choirs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020