There are some things I know about writing: that every writer has his or her own process and one writer's process will not work for another, that there are no short cuts in this business, and so on.
And yet, I am still compelled to ask the pointless questions: Where did you get that idea? How do you write such great sentences? Do you plot or pants? Please, won't you tell me how you did this...?
It is a source of continual frustration. I am always looking for the short cut in my core, no matter how much I believe there aren't any and no matter that I know the great stories I aspire to are either in me or they're not--and if they are they'll only be refined by writing them again and again and again.
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No matter how deeply I know that the best way to get something done is to just do it, I still keep listening to author interviews, and reading books like King's On Writing looking for the BIG answers on how to be successful. There's nothing wrong with looking for technical information on craft, but I think most of us still want to try to put a finger on that intangible something that takes us from aspiring to accomplished, despite knowing that there really are no shortcuts.
Yeah. Totally reading ON WRITING right now... LOL
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