I can’t thank Donaleen enough for her insightful and skilled editorial approach to my book, Attars. As an editor myself, I knew I could trust Donaleen to retain the rhythm and voice of my work. Her substantive suggestions were spot-on and non-intrusive. Further into the project, her thorough copy-editing added an elegant clarity to the final copy. I consider Donaleen Saul to be “the editor’s editor” and I highly recommend her.
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Choose a character you’re interested in exploring and write about what you DON’T KNOW about him/her and perhaps will never know.
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Make a list of people you haven’t seen for a while. Choose one person and write about him/her for ten minutes.
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Write opening lines for five different stories. Try to draw us into the middle of the action.
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Write about who or what you have left behind.
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Write the biggest, most preposterous lie you can come up with and tell it so convincingly that you believe it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Mark Twain
Well, my book is written—let it go. But if I were only to write over again there wouldn’t be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can’t ever be said. And besides, they would require a library—and a pen warmed up in hell.
May Sarton
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
Anne Lamott
If my family didn’t want me to write about them, they should’ve behaved better.