[ **up: [[Writing]]** ] --- # Writing fiction [[2024-0425. Most people spend a long time thinking about their novel before they ever start writing.|'If you’re like most people, you spend a long time thinking about your novel before you ever start writing.']][^1] (??!) [[2024-0527. 'Everything can nourish the writer...' — Anaïs Nin, 2000.|‘The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.’]][^2] [[2024-0527. 'For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky... but for the writer...'|'For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.']][^3] [[2024-0711. Write for the heart, edit for the story|“Write for the heart, edit for the story!”]][^4] > All it takes to be a writer is to write. A career as a writer is a whole other thing. Don’t get them confused.[^5] --- - [[Aubade]] - [[Worldbuilding]] --- ## Resources - [[Romance Beat Sheet (by Jamie Gold)]] - ~~[OneLook Thesaurus](https://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/) (external resource)~~ <small>N.B. appears to have descended into the AI slop pond with the others, sigh.</small> [^1]: Randy Ingermanson, ‘The Snowflake Method For Designing A Novel’, *Advanced Fiction Writing*, retrieved 25 April 2024, https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/. [^2]: ‘Anaïs Nin’, *Wikiquote*, last modified 7 April 2024, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin. [^3]: ‘Anaïs Nin’, *Wikiquote*, last modified 7 April 2024, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin. [^4]: Incorporeal Chase \[pseud.], *#ficwip* (Discord server), 11 July 2024, https://discord.com/channels/619581295634415627/1230220641576419338/1260840755560190073. [^5]: Justine Larbalestier, ‘Writer as a Career v Writer as Identity’, *The Various Writings of Justine Larbalestier*, 22 March 2010, https://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2010/03/22/writer-as-career-v-writer-as-identity/.