“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.” – William Faulkner Crafting a plot line is important. But no matter how clever you are at stringing together events, … Continue reading Quote of the Week–October 14th
“I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.” – P. G. Wodehouse Wodehouse said this at the advanced age of ninety-one (he lived a few months past his ninety-third birthday), and he was still an active and prolific writer at the time. We understand his sentiments, as none of us … Continue reading Quote of the Week–October 7th
“Writing a book is an adventure.” – Winston Churchill Anyone who loves books knows that reading one is an adventure. Writing them is an even greater adventure–the author can’t skip ahead to find out what happens. Of course, writers can plan what they think is going to happen, but characters don’t always do what they’re told. Continue reading Quote of the Week–September 30th
“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.” – Theodore Roosevelt Stories may contain conflict and struggles along the way, but they should always end triumphantly. What good is a book without hope? Continue reading Quote of the Week–September 23rd
“If they won’t write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.” – C. S. Lewis This quote of Lewis’s perfectly sums up the reasons for the creation of the Sibling Writery! Continue reading Quote of the Week–September 16th
The Sibling Writery 