Ernest Hemingway's 7 Tips for Writing:
1: To get started, write one true sentence.
"Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it
going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the
little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of
blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of
Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you
will write now.'"
2: Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you
know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are
writing a novel you will never be stuck."
3: Never think about the story when you're not working.
"I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but
always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part
of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."
4: When it's time to work again, always start by reading what you've
written so far.
"When it gets so long that you can't do this every day, read back two
or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the
start."
5: Don't describe an emotion-make it.
"When writing for a newspaper you told what happened and, with one
trick and another, you communicated the emotion aided by the element
of timeliness which gives a certain emotion to any account of
something that has happened on that day; but the real thing, the
sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be
as valid in a year or in ten years or, with luck and if you stated it
purely enough, always, was beyond me."
6: Use a pencil.
"If you write with a pencil you get three different sights at it to
see if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read
it over; then when it is typed you get another chance to improve it,
and again in the proof."
7: Be Brief.
"It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The
laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of
mathematics, of physics."
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