This is an excerpt from an interview with Robert Cromier, authour of I Am The Cheese and After The First Death. I really liked what he said.
"We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication."
This is on my blog also. If you can't get on my blog, please email me and I'll send you an invite (it's invitation only: Mom's orders.) I really want you all to be able to read it. Thanks!
That's great advice. I should follow it more.
ReplyDeleteWell, I agree I with Cromier's advice, I suppose, that practice makes perfect, but.. as a person with talent but no discipline or dedication, I almost take his comments personally. Go figure. I'm doomed for failure.
ReplyDelete