Julianne Jones: A Reason to Write: I Think

Friday 12 November 2010

I Think

I think I may have just typed the last word for book three in the Distant Land series. After months of suspense and agony and nail biting (not literally) and not being able to find the right word, it's finally done.

I think I've done a good job. Not great. Not a bestseller. But good.

Now it just needs now to be edited.

And edited.

And edited.

And EDITED.

Perhaps that's why the elation I was so sure I was going to feel when I hit SAVE is missing.

Or perhaps it's because having written that last word I now have to go and cook dinner and pick up the mail off the floor and fold the washing and ...

Quotes on Books

Literature adds to reality, it does not describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C S Lewis

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. Winston Churchill

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

You have to write badly in order to write well. William Faulkner

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C S Lewis