Inspiring and encouraging quotes for writers.
"Writers live twice," says Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones. "They go along with their regular life, are as fast as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives everything a second time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it. Looks at the texture and detail." (p. 48)
posted by Tricia Goyer at 8:19 AM
Tricia Goyer is the author of thirty books including Songbird Under a German Moon, The Swiss Courier, and the mommy memoir, Blue Like Play Dough. She won Historical Novel of the Year in 2005 and 2006 from ACFW, and was honored with the Writer of the Year award from Mt. Hermon Writer's Conference in 2003. Tricia's book Life Interrupted was a finalist for the Gold Medallion in 2005. In addition to her novels, Tricia writes non-fiction books and magazine articles for publications like MomSense and Thriving Family. Tricia is a regular speaker at conventions and conferences, and has been a workshop presenter at the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International Conventions. She and her family make their home in Little Rock, Arkansas where they are part of the ministry of FamilyLife.
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That second time through each experience in life is done from a detached point of view. Writers are both participants and spectators in their own lives, giving us a unique, perhaps more objective, perspective.
And aren't we always observing. People, situations, interactions, life. Everything I see is filed away. Last week, it was the cheerfulness of the older ladies working the hospital coffee shop. This week it's the interaction of the teens in my house when both my son and daughter have friends over. (It's not the same as when they were five and all the kids played together not caring.)
Then, it all shows up somewhere. For example, I just wrote a teen fiction story set in No. Cal where I grew up. It all came back. Only then the lake, the lava rock, the community was where I lived. Now, it's setting.
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