Greetings, writers—
In the words of John Steinbeck: “To be alive at all is to have scars.”
Today, write about your—or your character’s—scars, whether they be physical or otherwise.
Summon the ghost of Graham Greene, who (oh, how many times have you heard me say this??) wrote exactly 500 words a day1, rain or shine, war or peace, and write 500 words before you stop.
If you’d like a little inspiration, check out this poem about scars by Richard Jones. (Only the first page of the poem is visible via that link; you have to click the black rectangle with the white angle bracket > to see page two.)
Happy writing—
Emily
“Graham Greene was an almost eerily disciplined writer. He could write in the middle of wars, the Mau Mau uprising, you name it. And he wrote, quite strictly, five hundred words per day, in a little notebook he kept in his chest pocket. He counted the words, and at five hundred he stopped, even, his biographer says, in the middle of a sentence.” Joan Acocella, writing in The New Yorker
I should re-read it, if for this line alone: “If I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?”
I had no idea Graham Greene was such STUD.