Comments on: Writing Advice, and the Taking Thereof http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/ Novelist, Dog-Lover, Bon Vivant Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:08:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: fritz freiheit.com blog » Link dump http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-17039 fritz freiheit.com blog » Link dump Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:55:46 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-17039 [...] Diana Peterfreund Blog | Writing Advice, and the Taking Thereof (Writing, Advice) [...] [...] Diana Peterfreund Blog | Writing Advice, and the Taking Thereof (Writing, Advice) [...]

]]> By: TJBrown http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10192 TJBrown Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:17:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10192 Great advice, Diana. LOL Honestly, things are so different for different people and different books that I am hesitant to give advice, at least publicly. I do help newbie writers in person or off list...and I always tell them to take it with a grain of salt. <br/>Teri Great advice, Diana. LOL Honestly, things are so different for different people and different books that I am hesitant to give advice, at least publicly. I do help newbie writers in person or off list…and I always tell them to take it with a grain of salt.
Teri

]]> By: JulieLeto http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10189 JulieLeto Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:50:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10189 I do have a magic wand! Maybe I'll bring it this weekend! I do have a magic wand! Maybe I’ll bring it this weekend!

]]> By: booklady http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10188 booklady Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:11:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10188 The thing with what we learn is that it has this way of combining with what else we know and then changing over time, so that after a while it can be difficult to say where all of what we know came from. It could be something we thought of ourselves, something we read in a book on writing or heard at a conference session, or it could be something we actually misunderstood in the most opportune of ways. The beautiful thing about creativity is that it works so differently for everything. That's also one of the most difficult and terrifying things about it, because there is no right way. The thing with what we learn is that it has this way of combining with what else we know and then changing over time, so that after a while it can be difficult to say where all of what we know came from. It could be something we thought of ourselves, something we read in a book on writing or heard at a conference session, or it could be something we actually misunderstood in the most opportune of ways. The beautiful thing about creativity is that it works so differently for everything. That’s also one of the most difficult and terrifying things about it, because there is no right way.

]]> By: Erica Ridley http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10187 Erica Ridley Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:10:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10187 Ditto everything you said! Can't wait to see you... Ditto everything you said! Can’t wait to see you…

]]> By: Vicki http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10186 Vicki Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:52:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10186 Great post. Although I'm not yet published, I am working as hard as I can to get there. I think I had to learn the rules, actually, I know I had to learn the rules first. Then I had to learn how to take what was working for my book and what was not. Making the not part not look like I broke a rule and yet...I did.<br/><br/>I have to say You, Julie, Cheryl, and a several other TARA members have played a key role in this for me. Trust me, what you guys have to say I listen and listen well. I love the fact that you bring it to the table with what works, doesn't work, and might work somewhere else.<br/><br/>See ya at the bar!! Great post. Although I’m not yet published, I am working as hard as I can to get there. I think I had to learn the rules, actually, I know I had to learn the rules first. Then I had to learn how to take what was working for my book and what was not. Making the not part not look like I broke a rule and yet…I did.

I have to say You, Julie, Cheryl, and a several other TARA members have played a key role in this for me. Trust me, what you guys have to say I listen and listen well. I love the fact that you bring it to the table with what works, doesn’t work, and might work somewhere else.

See ya at the bar!!

]]> By: Diana Peterfreund http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10183 Diana Peterfreund Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:19:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10183 One way for all! We'll be like the Borg. It'll be AWESOME.<br/><br/>I think the skills that journalists and ad execs have are probably cobbled together from a gazillion bon mots LIKE "kill your darlings."<br/><br/>I wish I had a magic wand. But I don't. <br/><br/>(Julie does, though.) One way for all! We’ll be like the Borg. It’ll be AWESOME.

I think the skills that journalists and ad execs have are probably cobbled together from a gazillion bon mots LIKE “kill your darlings.”

I wish I had a magic wand. But I don’t.

(Julie does, though.)

]]> By: Carrie http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10182 Carrie Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:59:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10182 Excellent post! I've recently been thinking through many of these same things. You're right that advice is conflicting and you not only have to find what works for you, but be willing to change that if it's not working any more (cursed first line issues!!).<br/><br/>I'm one of those people who loves to hear how other people write and to read writing advice because I never know what will trigger something for me or inspire me. And I also like debating various advice because... well... I like debating things :) <br/><br/>I do think that needing to know "the right way" can lead to trouble -- there really is no right way! Excellent post! I’ve recently been thinking through many of these same things. You’re right that advice is conflicting and you not only have to find what works for you, but be willing to change that if it’s not working any more (cursed first line issues!!).

I’m one of those people who loves to hear how other people write and to read writing advice because I never know what will trigger something for me or inspire me. And I also like debating various advice because… well… I like debating things :)

I do think that needing to know “the right way” can lead to trouble — there really is no right way!

]]> By: Bill Clark http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10181 Bill Clark Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:28:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10181 <i>Of course I think you should take my advice -- because why else would I bother to give it? -- but I don't think I should win and the other advice should lose. And I wouldn't want you to take it in lieu of something that feels right to you.</i><br/><br/>Diana, this is a terrific post! There is <b>so</b> much excellent advice out here in the blogosphere, and of <b>course</b> some of it is mutually contradictory. You have neatly showed us how to live with that fact.<br/><br/>Have fun at TARA! Wish I could be there, even though they probably don't allow non-members through the door. (And to think that Delta is running its $59 each way LGA-TPA special again this weekend...guess it's the old story: conjunction of the minds, and opposition of the stars. Why can't the world pause in its orbit long enough for the stars to realign themselves?) Of course I think you should take my advice — because why else would I bother to give it? — but I don’t think I should win and the other advice should lose. And I wouldn’t want you to take it in lieu of something that feels right to you.

Diana, this is a terrific post! There is so much excellent advice out here in the blogosphere, and of course some of it is mutually contradictory. You have neatly showed us how to live with that fact.

Have fun at TARA! Wish I could be there, even though they probably don’t allow non-members through the door. (And to think that Delta is running its $59 each way LGA-TPA special again this weekend…guess it’s the old story: conjunction of the minds, and opposition of the stars. Why can’t the world pause in its orbit long enough for the stars to realign themselves?)

]]> By: JulieLeto http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10180 JulieLeto Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:31:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/writing-advice-and-the-taking-thereof/#comment-10180 I'm about to work on a book now that I suspect I won't send to my agent until it is done. A complete. This, after 30 sold books. Sometimes, you just have to finish the book. I haven't sold on anything but proposal for 29 books, but I'm considering making a switch.<br/><br/>In this business...and in this craft...you have to be like Lily Tomlin says in 9 to 5..."I'm a tree, I can bend." Flexibility and the ability to see the worth of processes that might not be yours at the moment, but might be just what you need on the very next project, is a key to continued and long-range success. It's people who get stuck up in the rules and hard-and-fast expectations of their own work that sometimes either don't sell or never sell again.<br/><br/>IMO. :-) I’m about to work on a book now that I suspect I won’t send to my agent until it is done. A complete. This, after 30 sold books. Sometimes, you just have to finish the book. I haven’t sold on anything but proposal for 29 books, but I’m considering making a switch.

In this business…and in this craft…you have to be like Lily Tomlin says in 9 to 5…”I’m a tree, I can bend.” Flexibility and the ability to see the worth of processes that might not be yours at the moment, but might be just what you need on the very next project, is a key to continued and long-range success. It’s people who get stuck up in the rules and hard-and-fast expectations of their own work that sometimes either don’t sell or never sell again.

IMO. :-)

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