Comments on: The First Key: Clarity http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/ HOW TO: Get It Written... Get It Published... Get It Read... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:38:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Esmeralda Bradford http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/#comment-5332 Esmeralda Bradford Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:11:03 +0000 http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/#comment-5332 2h63eco545ctzor1 2h63eco545ctzor1

]]> By: Orna http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/#comment-2540 Orna Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:09:08 +0000 http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/#comment-2540 Kathleen: I know what you mean. Not knowing is always so disconcerting. I think the more we do it, go with it, and see it work out, the easier it gets... (sometimes!) Mary: Nothing like a good teacher, is there? We remember them all our lives. I have a theory that all writers had a good English teacher somewhere along the way. I like this metaphor - embodied writing! At the moment I feel like I'm down at the ankle bones of my new novel...working my way up. Kathleen: I know what you mean. Not knowing is always so disconcerting. I think the more we do it, go with it, and see it work out, the easier it gets… (sometimes!)

Mary: Nothing like a good teacher, is there? We remember them all our lives. I have a theory that all writers had a good English teacher somewhere along the way. I like this metaphor - embodied writing! At the moment I feel like I’m down at the ankle bones of my new novel…working my way up.

]]> By: Mary A. Ryan http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/#comment-2539 Mary A. Ryan Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:16:27 +0000 http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/#comment-2539 Orna, I had a great teacher, many moons ago who likened the story to a skeleton. This was the bare bones (idea) but then we gave it shape and padded it out with muscles, then added the limbs. The final polish was the head and features. Mary A. Ryan. Orna, I had a great teacher, many moons ago who likened the story to a skeleton. This was the bare bones (idea) but then we gave it shape and padded it out with muscles, then added the limbs. The final polish was the head and features.
Mary A. Ryan.

]]> By: Kathleen Maher http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/#comment-2515 Kathleen Maher Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:52:43 +0000 http://www.fontlitagency.com/blog/2008/04/28/five-keys-to-writing-excellence-the-first-key-clarity/#comment-2515 Orna, Anytime I find confirmation that a detailed outline isn't necessarily the only way to start writing, it lifts me up. I learned the same rule in school; never followed it, only to win perhaps too much praise when I submitted what I wrote for a given assignment. Yet, I still need to know I'm not writing everything incorrectly. Orna, Anytime I find confirmation that a detailed outline isn’t necessarily the only way to start writing, it lifts me up.
I learned the same rule in school; never followed it, only to win perhaps too much praise when I submitted what I wrote for a given assignment.
Yet, I still need to know I’m not writing everything incorrectly.

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