Have more than one idea

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time.  If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter.  It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other.

Geoff Dyer

quoted in April 2014 Writers News www.writers-online.co.uk

Quantity Produces Quality

Quote from  Ray Bradbury in March 2014 Writers' News www.writers-online.co.uk

Quantity produces quality.  If you only write a few things you're doomed.

Retreat from the muddle....

With writing it's like you can retreat from the muddle that is everything else.     

Jake Kerridge  

quoted in Writers' News www.writers-online.co.uk 2014

My 200 words......

Remember back in November I wrote that I had entered a competition in Writing Magazine to win a copy of a book that I wanted.  Well, I didn't win it.  I think it was the last line hat let me down.  See what you think.  These were my 200 words....

On the front of my notebook, in which I record what I eat every day, is the slogan; ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’.   I am not a calorie counting maniac.  I don’t believe this is a healthy way to live.  I do feel however, that it’s not how much we eat, but rather what we eat, that is bad for us.  You might be able to get your calories from eating three meals a day at a fast food chain, but do you seriously think that is good for you?  ‘You are what you eat’, is another well used phrase, but if you want to lose weight, or just feel better about yourself, you need to start thinking about what you put inside your body.  We all know that five a day is the recommendation.   We also know that exercise is good for you.  It’s not rocket science.  Don’t follow fad diets just because Lady Ga Ga is said to.  She doesn’t.   She burns off enough calories in one night on stage, that she can eat exactly what she likes. The rest of us need to:  ‘Keep Calm and Learn to be Healthy’.   It really is  ‘Simples’.  

Are You Writing about people You Love or Hate?

I believe that people should write biographgies only about people they love.  Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much.

Penelope Fitzgerald http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Fitzgerald
It says here she was the daughter of the Bishop of Lincoln

Quoted in Writers News, March 2014 www.writers-online.co.uk