#writing: Wisdom author to author

'You can't depend on (writing) going smoothly day after day. It won't be that way... See the big picture. You are committed to writing... Continue under all circumstances. Don't be rigid, though... Always stay friendly toward it. It's easier to come back to a good friend than an enemy.'  from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

'When an author feels passionate about a subject, that enthusiasm will come across in the quality of the story...
New writers need to pay attention to their originality. There's only one you, and if you want to succeed, write out of that unique you.'
-Ann Whitford Paul (Writer Magazine June 2012)
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A Cure for the Jealous Writer (article) by Leanne Dyck

In Natalie Goldberg's book Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within she cautions against being jealous of other writers. She writes 'Don't make writers 'other', different from you... It makes it hard to become good if you create that duality...
If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.'

Now instead of thinking: Oh, I could never write like that. I'm not a writer. I should never touch a pen again.

I think: That's a well-written sentence/paragraph/chapter/story. It really works. The technique employed may work for the sentence/paragraph/chapter/story I'm currently writing. It may work even better if I tweak it, slightly.