#writing quote
Did you read all our Pep Talks last year? Although we’re past November, author Nic Stone’s Pep Talk is still full of excellent writing wisdom. Read the full Pep Talk here!
Image description: A illustration of a wooden posable drawing model that looks like it’s dancing, in front of a notebook page and blue pencil, with the text: “NaNoWriMo: “Your story is the dancer, and you are the dance. You lead. You set the steps. You call the shots.” —Nic Stone”
Nic Stone was born and raised in a suburb of Atlanta, GA, and the only thing she loves more than an adventure is a good story about one. After graduating from Spelman College, she worked extensively in teen mentoring and lived in Israel for a few years before returning to the US to write full-time. Growing up with a wide range of cultures, religions, and backgrounds, Stone strives to bring these diverse voices and stories to her work.
You can find her goofing off and/or fangirling over her adorable little family on most social media platforms.
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“The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.”
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“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin
(viathebookwormunderground)What writer hasn’t finished their first draft and thought, “the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me”?
*sigh* Yeah
