On Writing

I have been looking over a book that has a lot of good information on writing (though, I think, I forget to use a lot of it). The book is about the writing teacher Don Murray. It's called, The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher, edited by Thomas Newkirk and Lisa C. Miller.

Here is some of Murray's advice:

--Be patient, listen quietly, the writing will come.

--You have to write to discover what you have to say.

--Write with information. The reader doesn't turn the page because of a hunger to applaud.

--All writing is experimental, failure is normal, success abnormal.

--Don't look back. Yes, the draft needs fixing. But first it needs writing.

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