Blog – Page 10 – Julie Duffy Writing (& stuff)

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In 1954 or ‘55 I needed to speak in some inventive way about our female and male lives in those years. Some knowledge was creating a real physical pressure, probably in the middle of my chest —- maybe just to the right of my heart. I was beginning to suffer the storyteller’s pain: Listen! I… Continue reading Untitled

-Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor’s of the mind.

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This is the kind of person who was always destined to be a writer. Did it make you smile? Maybe you’re a writer too…

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I know most people tell you you should read a lot and get writing partners etc. But I think every single writer should take some basic business and sales courses. As a writer, you are really the sole proprietor of a business. Helaine Becker

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I had often heard people talking about how too many varied dialogue attributions (remarked, demanded, cried, interrupted, etc. instead of a simple “said”) and attributions modified by adverbs weaken your text. I didn’t really see it, until I was revising this book. Then I finally understood! Rather than saying, “Close the door,’ she scolded angrily,”… Continue reading Untitled

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Be yourself. It may or may not work out well, but it’s your best option. Jurgen Wolff

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I don’t want to trust my storytellers. I want a storyteller to show me that I can’t trust him….I want him to do things to the character and the storyworld — and, by proxy, to me the poor little quivering audience member gnawing his fingernails down to the bloody quick — that aren’t right. I… Continue reading Untitled