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  1. Perseverance is necessary to succeed. Few words come easy for long. When words do come, embrace your subconscious trains of thought. Listen. 3:48 AM Oct 11th from web
  2. Revision is refinement. Deletion is often necessary. When a sentence does not gel delete it. Delete most adverbs. Rely on verbs and nouns... 7:32 PM May 6th from web
  3. @TheNovelist Words and sentences need time to cure, as do characters, plots, and themes. After curing, sharing. Then more refinement...••• 6:10 PM Apr 29th from Tweetie
  4. The novel manuscript has entered the NYC publishing fray... and is under consideration one publisher at a time, hard copy as is traditional. 10:49 AM Apr 22nd from web
  5. Much of a writer's writing is generated from her subconscious. Many novelists are frustrated with the world. They write to make life better. 9:00 PM Apr 9th from web
  6. "Independence is the most important thing in all of life. I say for my part that a man lives in vain until he is independent." Bjartur, poet 8:11 PM Apr 3rd from web
  7. Halldór Guðjónsson was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, Iceland. He visualized himself as a #writer from an early age, and wrote often until 1998. 8:08 PM Apr 3rd from web
  8. Sjálfstætt fólk is the title of Independent People, translated directly as Free-Standing Folk. Laxness died in 1998 after writing 51 novels. 8:06 PM Apr 3rd from web
  9. "Art must be supported by sympathy and love for humanity; otherwise it is worth very little." Presentation Speech by E. Wessén 1955 Nobel 8:00 PM Apr 3rd from web
  10. Texture and depth serve literary fiction, and can come from simple sentences and syntax, or ornate language. "A story well told" is #fiction 8:35 PM Apr 2nd from web
  11. If one expects to write novels one is served well to as read many classic novels as one may, and to re-read them. Moby Dick, Suttree, Gatsby 8:31 PM Apr 2nd from web
  12. "Then they went on their way." The last sentence. Between: the finest storytelling in translation, a most beautiful rendering by JA Thompson 8:27 PM Apr 2nd from web
  13. ...left behind them crosses, bells, and other objects used in the practice of sorcery." Thus begins the Scandinavian classic, a masterpiece 8:24 PM Apr 2nd from web
  14. "In early times, say the Icelandic chronicles, men from the Western Islands came to live in this country, and when they departed... 8:22 PM Apr 2nd from web
  15. Halldor Laxness was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1955 for the Icelandic #novel INDEPENDENT PEOPLE, the modern Icelandic saga... 8:19 PM Apr 2nd from web
  16. Cut to the chase, set the hook, get to the point, and paint the main characters in the first few pages. The opening sentence is critical... 5:55 PM Mar 30th from web
  17. Be a novelist's voice kind, presumptuous, omniscient, unreliable, judgmental, naive, bold, disturbed, or aged, Clarity Creates Readability. 7:57 AM Mar 30th from web
  18. Let me put in here that certain words can only be used once in a novel, words like ilk or crepuscular. Finding a clear voice is essential. 6:22 AM Mar 30th from web
  19. Novelwriting is time consuming--a million words written before the sentences start to find a rhythm. Novelwriting is a lonely pursuit. 6:18 AM Mar 30th from web
  20. This is the journey of The Novelist through the revision and refinement of the 45,000 word story, and the marketing of the literary fiction. 7:51 PM Mar 29th from web