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Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive? (QuitBooks for Writers, #6) Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive? by Becca Syme
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“There are no hard and fast rules in this industry, so everyone has opinions about what authors should and should not do. (Including me, and I am aware of that.) But each individual person needs to have the tools to make their own choices when there is no industry standard. Literally every “rule” you could come up with, there are outliers that have very good reasons why they don’t follow that rule.”
Becca Syme, Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?
“So what we find are a lot of inner-driven writers trying to force eternal boundaries on their creativity.”
Becca Syme, Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?
“No one knows why they’re on Facebook.” Again, interested, I asked, “What do you mean?” “Everyone just does it because everyone does it.”
Becca Syme, Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?
“In fact, many writers who only need the spark will try to outline to get faster and then find they can’t write the book. What”
Becca Syme, Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?
“As writers, we use words to craft people, places, situations, and actions which come together to deliver feelings, themes, and ideas too complex to be captured by mere statements.”
Becca Syme, Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?
“When you have an intuitive brain, you have an autopilot computer. You put the data in, and the computer shows you the story. The computer gets honed over the years by consuming great stories and becoming aware of what you love about storytelling.”
Becca Syme, Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?
“Being an intuitive writer is like having access to an autopilot computer, but being the pilot and not the engineer. I know, as a pilot, how to put the right information into the computer. I do not know how to take the computer apart and re-program it.”
Becca Syme, Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?
“There is no such thing as plotting vs. pants-ing. There is only explicit plotting and intuitive plotting.”
Becca Syme, Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?