Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
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