Preliminary Writing Aphorisms
1) Abandon the search for the perfect word; seek instead to establish the perfect relation between words.
2) In seeking the literary, locate the tenuous and ethereal strand that exists between the mechanism of the plot and the vitalism of the characters.
3) Narrative divergence is as natural as its convergence. Embrace their flow.
4) Do not write to create a closed system, for it is only there that the myth of entropy is established as fact. A book is not a system; it is an open assembly.
5) Avoid writing the flat line; write the vector.
6) Write in such a way that every component can be detached, reversed, or become rootless.
7) Do not write dialogue - orchestrate it.
8) Every moment of description is but the slowing down of dramatization.
9) Writing can operate at several speeds simultaneously, and there is no limit beyond complete inertia or the infinite.
10) Always keep in mind that the book you write may one day betray you. You are not in a relationship of parent and child with your book, but in a tentative alliance.
2) In seeking the literary, locate the tenuous and ethereal strand that exists between the mechanism of the plot and the vitalism of the characters.
3) Narrative divergence is as natural as its convergence. Embrace their flow.
4) Do not write to create a closed system, for it is only there that the myth of entropy is established as fact. A book is not a system; it is an open assembly.
5) Avoid writing the flat line; write the vector.
6) Write in such a way that every component can be detached, reversed, or become rootless.
7) Do not write dialogue - orchestrate it.
8) Every moment of description is but the slowing down of dramatization.
9) Writing can operate at several speeds simultaneously, and there is no limit beyond complete inertia or the infinite.
10) Always keep in mind that the book you write may one day betray you. You are not in a relationship of parent and child with your book, but in a tentative alliance.
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