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/*display:flex; justify-content:space-between; */ } #wrap{background:transparent; margin:0 auto; padding:0; width:100%; color:#414141; padding:0} .l_sidebar{width:15%} .r_sidebar{ width:22%; _min-width:150px; min-width:160px; max-width:345px; float:left; background-color: white; /*background-color:#bdbec2; */ /*:transparent; */ font-size:1.3rem; _margin-top:0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2px; padding:0 0 0 10px; overflow:visible ; } .da-third-column{overflow:visible !important ;} .middle_sidebar{font-size: 1.4rem; _width:14%; width:17%; min-width:90px; max-width:180px; float:left; background:transparent; margin:.5% .5%; padding:0px .5% 0 1%; _border-right:1px dotted #d1ccbc; min-width:128px; } div.middle_sidebar{ border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #d1ccbc ;} .contentmiddle{ width:54% ; min-width:185px; float:left; margin-top:.4rem; font-size:16px; font-size:1.6rem; /* line-height:15px; line-height:150%; */ _margin-right:5px; _padding-right: 20px; _max-width: 700px; padding-right: 3%; } .contentmiddle h1, .contentmiddle h1 a { text-decoration: none; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: normal; color: #373731; /* near black */ line-height: 140%; } #headerW {height:100%; width: 100% !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display:block;} .l_sidebar a:link,.l_sidebar a:visited, .middle_sidebar a:link, .middle_sidebar a:visited, .r_sidebar a:visited, .r_sidebar a:link{ /*color:#0183B2; old blue*/ color: #394244; font-size: 1.4rem; border-top: 1px solid lightgrey; /*word-spacing: -.3rem; */ } .new_subscription_block { font-family:"Muli", sans-serif ; background: #daf4fc; border-radius: 0rem; margin:4% 5% 4% 5%; padding: 5% 7% 5% 7%; line-height:150%; } .new_subscription_block p{ Font-Family:Lora; font-style:italic;} .new_subscription_block h3, h4 {font-family:"Muli", sans-serif; } .r_sub_con a:visited, .r_sub_con a:link, .new_subscription_block a:visited, .new_subscription_block a:link{ border-top: 0px ;} /* turn off links */ #clearfixheader { clear: both; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin-top: 0px; padding-top:0px; } .social_li ul li a:link, .social_li ul li a, .social_li a:link, .social_li li a, .social_li a { padding: .2rem .8rem !important /* this controls how tall & wide socialbuttons are ; remove !important when style.css is consolidated */ color:#1e3a4a } .social_li li{display:inline; margin-left:10px ;margin-left:1rem; margin-right:10px; margin-right:1rem;} .centerwrap ul {margin: 0px -1% 0px 0%} #navbar{ font-size: 1.6rem; _font-family: "Oswald", sans-serif !important; font-family:"Muli", sans-serif !important; font-weight: 400; _text-transform: uppercase; font-weight:bold; z-index:99; /*margin-top, margin-bottom: 0px !important; */ text-alignment:center; height:auto !important; text-align:justify; -ms-text-justify:distribute-all-lines; text-justify:distribute-all-lines; _letter-spacing:-.5px; color:#39AACF; margin-top: 0px; margin-left:0%; _margin-right:7% ; border-radius:0px; _background-color:rgba(118,154,172,.9); background-color:rgba(57, 170, 207, .85); min-width:245px; _width: 86%; width: 100%; } #navbar a{ _font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0 12px; padding:0 1rem; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration:none; letter-spacing: .1px; color: white; _font-family: Helvetica; _font-family: "Oswald", sans-serif !important; font-family:"Muli", sans-serif font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.55rem; line-height: 2.2rem; padding-top: 3px; } .nav ul, .socmedia ul {text-align:center} /*#nav{list-style-type:none;} */ /* #nav li{display:inline;float:left;list-style-type:none} #nav .stretch { display: inline-block; width: 100%; *display: inline; zoom: 1 } */ /*icons by https://www.entypo.com/*/ .social_li ul li a:link, .social_li ul li a,.social a:link, .social_li li a, .social_li a { padding: 0 .8rem !important; /* this controls how tall & wide socialbuttons are ; remove !important when style.css is consolidated */ color: white; /*#1e3a4a */ } /* might work to space out items more nav li:before { margin-left: 3px} */ #search-old2{ display: inline-block!important; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: none!important; width: 115px!important; font-family: font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif !important; background-color: #1497c2; text-align: left !important; font-weight: normal!important; } #search-old2 form{background:none!important; width:110px; height:100%; margin-top:2px !important; padding:0px} /* this indents widget */ .contentwrapper ul li li{ text-indent: -1.1rem; } .contentwrapper a, a:visited, a:hover{font-size: inherit; } /* 1.6rem; shouldnt this just inherit */ .middle_sidebar ul , .r_sidebar ul , .l_sidebar ul, .contentmiddle ul, .r_sidebar ul li { background:none; list-style-type:none; } /*shading boxes around ads + contact info*/ .r_sidebar .r_adbx_top, .r_sub_con,.r_about_ad{background: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 0rem; } /*#bdbec2 */ .r_adbx_top, .r_sub_con,.r_about_ad{text-align:left; padding: 10px 18px 10px 18px; margin:12px -4px 0px -4px;} .box { border: .2rem solid black; font-size: 4rem; border-radius:2px;} .lightbox {border: .1rem solid grey ;} _colorcontrast {background-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); margin: 0px; border-right: 9px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); border-left: 9px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); border-radius: 8px;} .tagline { text-align:left ; font-size:13px; font-size:1.3hw; line-height:100%; margin:0; margin-top: 6px; /* color:white !important; */ margin-left:6px; padding:2px; color:#4a7d96; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } #tagline_container{ max-width:335px; width:100%; margin-top: 50px; margin-left: 21px; } _ad_logo_wrapper{margin-left:3.5%; margin-right:4.3%;} #ad_logo_wrapper{margin-left:7%; margin-right:4%; margin-top:3px;} #logocontainer{width:auto; float:left; margin-left:0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width:40%; } #big_logo { /* margin-left: 25%; max-width: 7%; transform: scale(8); float: left; width:100%; max-height: 10%; */ } #big_logo{ transform: scale(8); max-height:10%; max-width:325px; float: left !important; text-align: left; width: 100%; } #logo_container { width: 100%; float: left; z-index: -40; /* overflow: visible; */ max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; min-width: 140px; margin-left: 20px; height: auto; min-height: 40px; margin-top: 0px; _background-image: url(/wp-content/themes/openculture_v3a/images/openculture_banner.png); background-size: contain; background-repeat: no-repeat; max-width:80vw;; /*css3 viewport setting */ } .left { /* border: 2px dashed #f0f; */ text-align:left; _min-height:40px; height:auto; _margin-top: 45px; margin-left: 0px; _background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-stacked-logo.svg") no-repeat; _background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-horizontal-logo.svg") no-repeat; _background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-stacked-logo-with-stacked-tagline.svg") no-repeat; _background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-horizontal-logo-with-tagline.svg") no-repeat; background-size: contain; max-width:600px; min-width:90px; overflow:hidden; _background-position-y:0px; _background-position-x:0px; background-position-x: center !important; background-position-y: center !important; z-index:200; } .right { float: right; _width: 740px; /*min-height: 25px;*/ margin-left: 2.5%; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px ; padding-right:0px; /* border: 2px dashed #00f; */ position:relative; z-index:200; } .top{} .bottom{ background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-horizontal-logo.svg") no-repeat; _background-size: contain; background-size: revert-layer; min-height:80px; /* border: 2px dashed green; */ clear:both; padding-top:8px; _margin: 4px 10px 0 10px; _background-position-y: 0px; /* min-height: 65px; */ clear: both; background-position-x: center; background-position-y:center; padding-top: 0px; margin: 2px 1rem 0px 1rem; /* height: 90px; */ _min-height: 110px; } #footerW{ right: 0; left: 0; position: relative; padding: 0; overflow:hidden;} .clear {clear:both;} .logo_clickable { position:absolute; width:100%; height:100%; top:0; left: 0; z-index: 50; _position:absolute; /* fixes overlap error in IE7/8, make sure you have an empty gif */ _background-image: url('empty.gif'); } .socialblock li {top: 2px;} .social-mail a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/mail.svg) no-repeat;} .social-twitter a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/twitter.svg) no-repeat;} .social-facebook a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/facebook.svg) no-repeat;} .social-rss a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/rss.svg) no-repeat;} .social-search a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/magnifying-glass.svg) no-repeat;} .sb-icon-search {background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/magnifying-glass.svg) no-repeat;} .social-mail-black a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/mail-black.svg) no-repeat;} .social-twitter-black a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/twitter-black.svg) no-repeat} .social-facebook-black a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/facebook-black.svg) no-repeat} .social-rss-black a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/rss-black.svg) no-repeat} .social-mail a:hover{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/mail-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .social-twitter a:hover{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/twitter-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .social-facebook a:hover{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/facebook-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .social-rss a:hover { background: url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/rss-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .social-search a:hover{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/magnifying-glass-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .sb-icon-search :hover {background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/magnifying-glass.svg) no-repeat;} /* override images that we dont want to go to margin */ .contentmiddle img.noexpand, .contentmiddle p img.noexpand, .contentmiddle img[src$="feed-icon16x16139.png"],img[title|="noexpand"], .contentmiddle div.noexpand img, .contentmiddle div.noexpand p img , .begbox img, .ct_comment_info img, ct_this_is_spam img, ct_comment_info div{ width:initial !important; display: block !important; line-height: 100%; } .noexpand img {width:initial !important;} /*this seems to work more reliably than above */ .contentmiddle img.oneXone {width: 1px !important; height: 1px !important;} .contentmiddle img.noexpand.center{display:block !important; } #footer { color: white; width: 100%; /*margin:0 auto; */ margin-bottom:100px; padding:28px 0 0 0px; font-family:"Muli", sans-serif; font-weight:400; clear:both; display:inline-block; } .framearound_ad_in_post{margin: .6rem 0px 2.4rem 0px; height:auto;max-height:120px; width:100%;padding:0px; border: 2px solid #D3D3D3; border-radius:8px;min-height:3rem; } .advertisement_notice{text-align:center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant:small caps; color: #0183b2;} .begbox{color:white;width:100%;display:inline-block; background: #36b0d8; margin-left: -4px; padding: 0; font-family: Lora, "Lora", Times, serif;font-style:normal} .begbox img { width:250px ; margin: 8px auto} .begbox p, .begbox div {margin: 1em 0px 0 12px} .da_bottom {line-height:10%} .no-framearound_ad_in_post {padding-bottom: 25px; padding-top:15px; width: 100%} img.no-framearound_ad_in_post {width:100%} .responsive_belowheadline_ad{ height: 100%; display:inline-block; width:98%; min-height:70px; max-height:200px; margin-right:4px; padding-bottom: 10px; } /*comment box */ div.cbInner {background: #eaebe8; border-radius:8px ;} div.cbInner h5 {color: #000;} .comments {color:#000:;} /*bullets*/ /*set chevrons on all widgets don't turn it on for ul li in sidebars*/ /*.contentwrapper ul li li, */ .r_sidebar a:link,.r_sidebar a:visited,.r_sidebar a:hover,.middle_sidebar a:link,.middle_sidebar a:visited,.middle_sidebar a:hover{ font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: inherit; } .contentmiddle a:link, .contentwrapper a {text-decoration:none; } .l_sidebar ul li a:hover, .middle_sidebar ul li a:hover, .r_sidebar ul li a:hover, .contentmiddle a:hover { text-decoration:underline} #footer ul li {line-height:130%; list-style:none;} #footer ul li a:link {color:white; font-size:1.6rem; text-decoration:none;} #footer ul li a:hover {text-decoration:underline;} .l_sidebar li a, .r_sidebar li a, .middle_sidebar li a{ /*display:block; */ /*OC-typography.png */ text-decoration:none; padding-left: 1em; /*font-style:italic;*/ font-family:"Muli", sans-serif; _font-style:bold; font-weight:400; color:#394244; } .widgettitle{ _border-top-width: 1px; _border-top-style: dotted; _border-top-color: gray; font-family:"Lora", sans-serif !important; font-weight: 600; _font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 19px; font-weight: bold; padding: 3px ; margin: 8px 2px 2px 1px !important; /*color: #898477; */ letter-spacing: -.5px; } .widgetbox ul,.widget_categories ul, .widget_archive ul { border-bottom: 1px dotted #d1ccbc ; padding-bottom: 30px !important; display:block;} .widgetbox li a, .widget_categories li a, .widget_archive li a {display:block;} .recent_post{ border-bottom: 1px dotted #d1ccbc; padding: 0 0 30px 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height:150%; overflow:hidden; } .noborder, .middle_sidebar.noborder:link, div.noborder a {border-top: 0px white !important;} .contentmiddle ul li a{} /*set chevrons on all widgets don't turn it on for ul li in sidebars* .contentwrapper ul li li,*/ .contentmiddle li, .r_sidebar li, .l_sidebar li, .middle_sidebar li { /* background:url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQAFALMJANTPvq2ok8rGs8C8qMXBrrKtmLeynufj0+Pezvby4wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAkALAAAAAAFAAUAQAQQcByCkqQpCQPCKYiBfCESAQA7) no-repeat 0 10px; */ list-style-type:none; zoom:1; margin-left: .8em; zoom: 1; padding-left: .2em; margin-bottom: .3em; line-height:1.9rem; } .contentmiddle ul li li :before , .r_sidebar ul li li :before, .middle_sidebar ul li li :before, .l_sidebar ul li li :before { /*content: "\25B8"; */ float:left; padding-right:1rem; font-style:normal;} .contentmiddle ul li li li :before {content:none;} .contentmiddle ul li {list-style-type: none; padding-right:.8rem; padding-bottom: .4rem; font-style:normal;} /*set general padding for Ul lists */ .contentwrapper ul { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 10px 0; background:none; } .middle_sidebar ul , .r_sidebar ul , .l_sidebar ul, .contentmiddle ul { background:none; list-style-type:none; } /*titles in widgets*/ .widgettitle, ul.l_sidebar li h2, ul.r_sidebar li h2, ul.middle_sidebar li h2, .middle_sidebar li h2 { font-weight:normal; padding:3px; margin:2px 2px 2px 1px; _font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-family:Lora; color:#fc621f letter-spacing:-.5px; list-style-type:none; background: none !important; font-size: 1.9rem; } .r_sidebar ul {margin-left:-.6rem;} .middle_sidebar ul{ margin-top:1.2rem; margin-left:-1.1rem;} .middle_sidebar ul li {background:none } .contentmiddle li {background: none no-repeat 0 10px; list-style-type:none; zoom:1; /*margin-left: .8rem; */ zoom: 1; padding-left: .2rem; margin-bottom: 0rem; } /* turn off bullets on headers */ .contentwrapper ul {background:none;} /*lists inside lists */ .contentmiddle ul li li {margin-bottom:0rem; margin-left:5rem; list-style-type: none; } .contentwrapper ul {content:"";} .contentmiddle ul li li:before, .contentmiddle ul li:before, .middle_sidebar ul li li :before, /*put right triangle before bullets */ .middle_sidebar ul li li, .r_sidebar ul li li, .l_sidebar ul li li {line-height:inherit;} // Variables @colorBase: #394244; .transition (@prop: all, @time: 1s, @ease: linear) { -webkit-transition: @prop @time @ease; -moz-transition: @prop @time @ease; -o-transition: @prop @time @ease; -ms-transition: @prop @time @ease; transition: @prop @time @ease; } .universal-inline-block { display: inline-block; zoom: 1; *display: inline; } /* horizontal buttons */ div .social-icons2 { text-align: center; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-weight: 300; font-size: 1.5em; color: @colorBase; _margin: -2% -8% -2% -14%; } .social-icons2 ul { margin: 0; _padding: 0; list-style-type: none; text-align: center; } .social-icons2 ul li { _padding: 0px 8px 0px 6px; display:inline-block; text-indent:0; margin: 0px -4px 0px -4px;} .social-icons2 ul li a { text-decoration: none; _padding: .1rem .8rem; color: #fff; } .social-icons2-altmargin ul li {padding: 0 20px;} .social-icons2 ul li a:hover{ color: #1497c2; } .margin_left_10 {margin-left:-10px;} .white_background {background-color:white;} .oc-center, .oc-center img { width:100% ; max-width:100% !important; margin:0 auto; display:block; text-align:center;} .oc-center-da, .oc-center-da img, .oc-center-da object, .oc-center-da img { max-width: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; margin:0 auto; display: block; text-align:center;} /*fix expanding captcha refresh */ #fscf_captcha_refresh1 {width: 24px;height: 24px;} .oc-video-container { position: relative; _padding-bottom: 63.25%; padding-bottom:54%; padding-top: 10px; height: 0; } a.mashicon-reddit{background-color: darkred;} /* allow for override of img resizer */ .contentmiddle div.oc-no-resize-center img{ width: inherit !important; margin 0 auto; float:left} /*#footer img{width:inherit!important ;} */ /*footer stuff */ #flexcanvas{ width: 100%; max-width:100%; _height: 600px !important; margin-left: 3px; } .rowParent, .columnParent{ display: -webkit-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: -webkit-flex; display: flex; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-flex-direction: row; -ms-flex-direction: row; flex-direction: row; -webkit-flex-wrap: nowrap; -ms-flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-wrap: nowrap; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-justify-content: flex-start; -ms-flex-pack: start; justify-content: flex-start; -webkit-align-content: stretch; -ms-flex-line-pack: stretch; align-content: stretch; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-align-items: stretch; -ms-flex-align: stretch; align-items: stretch; } .columnParent{ -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-flex-direction: column; -ms-flex-direction: column; flex-direction: column; } .flexChild{ -webkit-box-flex: 1; -webkit-flex: 1; 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<div class="entry"> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="800" height="999" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1011004 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt="ErnestHemingway" loading="lazy" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway.jpg 800w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway-120x150.jpg 120w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway-768x959.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway-300x375.jpg 300w" data-sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="800" height="999" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1011004" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway.jpg" alt="ErnestHemingway" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway.jpg 800w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway-120x150.jpg 120w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway-768x959.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/19210133/ErnestHemingway-300x375.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px"></noscript></p> <p align="right"><small><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ErnestHemingway.jpg">Image by Lloyd Arnold via Wikimedia Commons</a></em></small></p> <p>Before he was a big game hunter, before he was a deep-sea fisherman, Ernest Hemingway was a craftsman who would rise very early in the morning and write. His best stories are masterpieces of the modern era, and his prose style is one of the most influential of the 20th century.</p> <p>Hemingway never wrote a treatise on the art of writing fiction.  He did, however, leave behind a great many passages in letters, articles and books with opinions and advice on writing. Some of the best of those were assembled in 1984 by Larry W. Phillips into a book, <a href="http://amzn.to/ZpgMuJ"><em>Ernest Hemingway on Writing</em></a>. We’ve selected seven of our favorite quotations from the book and placed them, along with our own commentary, on this page. We hope you will all–writers and readers alike–find them fascinating.</p> <div class="oc-center-da"> <div data-fuse="22871471544"></div> </div> <p><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1: To get started, write one true sentence.</span></span></span></strong></p> <p>Hemingway had a simple trick for overcoming writer’s block. In a memorable passage in <a href="http://amzn.to/153s1bB"><em>A Moveable Feast</em></a>, he writes:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written.</em></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">2: Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.</span></strong></p> <p>There is a difference between stopping and foundering. To make steady progress, having a daily word-count quota was far less important to Hemingway than making sure he never emptied the well of his imagination. In an October 1935 article in <em>Esquire </em>( <a href="https://dianedrake.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hemingway-Monologue-to-the-Maestro1.pdf" target="_blank">“Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter”</a>) Hemingway offers this advice to a young writer:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">T<em>he best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.</em></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">3: Never think about the story when you’re not working.</span></strong></p> <p>Building on his previous advice, Hemingway says never to think about a story you are working on before you begin again the next day. “That way your subconscious will work on it all the time,” he writes in the <em>Esquire</em> piece. “But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.” He goes into more detail in <em>A Moveable Feast</em>:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>When I was writing, it was necessary for me to read after I had written. If you kept thinking about it, you would lose the thing you were writing before you could go on with it the next day. It was necessary to get exercise, to be tired in the body, and it was very good to make love with whom you loved. That was better than anything. But afterwards, when you were empty, it was necessary to read in order not to think or worry about your work until you could do it again. I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.</em></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">4: When it’s time to work again, always start by reading what you’ve written so far.</span></strong></p> <p>T0 maintain continuity, Hemingway made a habit of reading over what he had already written before going further. In the 1935 <em>Esquire</em> article, he writes:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can’t do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That’s how you make it all of one piece.</em></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">5: Don’t describe an emotion–make it</span></strong><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></p> <p>Close observation of life is critical to good writing, said Hemingway. The key is to not only watch and listen closely to external events, but to also notice any emotion stirred in you by the events and then trace back and identify precisely what it was that caused the emotion. If you can identify the concrete action or sensation that caused the emotion and present it accurately and fully rounded in your story, your readers should feel the same emotion. In <a href="http://amzn.to/131WXdO"><em>Death in the Afternoon</em></a>, Hemingway writes about his early struggle to master this:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced. In writing for a newspaper you told what happened and, with one trick and another, you communicated the emotion aided by the element of timeliness which gives a certain emotion to any account of something that has happened on that day; but the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or in ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always, was beyond me and I was working very hard to get it.</em></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">6: Use a pencil.</span></strong></p> <p>Hemingway often used a typewriter when composing letters or magazine pieces, but for serious work he preferred a pencil. In the <em>Esquire</em> article (which shows signs of having been written on a typewriter) Hemingway says:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>When you start to write you get all the kick and the reader gets none. So you might as well use a typewriter because it is that much easier and you enjoy it that much more. After you learn to write your whole object is to convey everything, every sensation, sight, feeling, place and emotion to the reader. To do this you have to work over what you write. If you write with a pencil you get three different sights at it to see if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read it over; then when it is typed you get another chance to improve it, and again in the proof. Writing it first in pencil gives you one-third more chance to improve it. That is .333 which is a damned good average for a hitter. 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Pinging is currently not allowed. </small>  <ul class="commentlist"> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-75985"> <div id="div-comment-75985" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://www.euro-wigs.com/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Ellen Perücke</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-75985">February 19, 2013 at 11:24 pm</a> </div> <p>For me, the most important advice is to not think about the story when one is not working on it. In the meanwhile the subconscious is doing the job for you. This simply works.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-75985" data-commentid="75985" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-75985" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Ellen Perücke" aria-label="Reply to Ellen Perücke">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-76862"> <div id="div-comment-76862" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">TNNA</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-76862">February 20, 2013 at 1:59 pm</a> </div> <p>It’s a good list, but you neglected to mention my favorite Hemingway writing tip: <a href="http://talentneednotapply.com/?p=573" rel="nofollow ugc">http://talentneednotapply.com/?p=573</a></p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-76862" data-commentid="76862" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-76862" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to TNNA" aria-label="Reply to TNNA">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-77178"> <div id="div-comment-77178" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">N. K. Bellani</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-77178">February 21, 2013 at 8:48 pm</a> </div> <p>Be your own spontaneous self and write, when you like and the way like, is my tip…</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-77178" data-commentid="77178" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-77178" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to N. K. Bellani" aria-label="Reply to N. K. Bellani">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-77339"> <div id="div-comment-77339" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">More tips.</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-77339">February 22, 2013 at 10:26 am</a> </div> <p>Tip #8 — Be drunk.</p> <p>Tip #9 — Commit suicide once you’ve achieved fame and fortune.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-77339" data-commentid="77339" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-77339" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to More tips." aria-label="Reply to More tips.">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-77351"> <div id="div-comment-77351" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Melayahm</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-77351">February 22, 2013 at 11:39 am</a> </div> <p>#2 is so damn obvious, it’s genius, and yet I’ve never seen it before on any other site about writing! (and I’ve Stumbledupon a lot of writing sites)</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-77351" data-commentid="77351" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-77351" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Melayahm" aria-label="Reply to Melayahm">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-77418"> <div id="div-comment-77418" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://www.secretstopeace.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Elliott Teters</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-77418">February 22, 2013 at 5:53 pm</a> </div> <p>Thank you for sharing these writing tips. It always amazes me how one successful writer insists we must do one thing, then another believes we must do the opposite. I am not what I would call a successful writer yet, but it is pretty clear to me that the greatest obstacle to creating clear, understandable work, whether it be fiction or non-fiction, is actually showing up and writing. It is quite a lot easier to edit something that is written than it is to alter something that exists only in my mind. I do not remember the writer who said, “What separates a writer from a would-be writer is that the writer writes,” but I have read so many writers of different skill levels I would have to agree.</p> <p>Anyway I really appreciate this article and the time you put into sharing it with us. I will be locating the book cited and learning more from Mr. Hemingway because of your efforts.</p> <p>Thank you!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-77418" data-commentid="77418" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-77418" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Elliott Teters" aria-label="Reply to Elliott Teters">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-77746"> <div id="div-comment-77746" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://elissafield.wordpress.com/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Elissa Field</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-77746">February 24, 2013 at 8:01 am</a> </div> <p>Thanks for curating this classic list. It’s sometimes easy to dismiss the iconic writers, but Hemingway was a pioneer in his time — and predated the abundance of writing advice and MFA programs we live in now.</p> <p>I shared a link to your article in my Friday Links for Writers 02.22.13: <a href="http://elissafield.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/friday-links-for-writers-02-22-13/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://elissafield.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/friday-links-for-writers-02–22-13/</a></p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-77746" data-commentid="77746" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-77746" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Elissa Field" aria-label="Reply to Elissa Field">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-77895"> <div id="div-comment-77895" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://bollywoodnewsall.blogspot.com/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">JONIDUL ISLAM</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-77895">February 25, 2013 at 2:13 am</a> </div> <p>It’s sometimes easy to iconic writers.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-77895" data-commentid="77895" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-77895" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to JONIDUL ISLAM" aria-label="Reply to JONIDUL ISLAM">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-77998"> <div id="div-comment-77998" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://behappytips.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Kari</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-77998">February 25, 2013 at 8:11 am</a> </div> <p>I did find them fascinating. Number two really resonated with me as something I need to start doing today. Usually, I exhaust my imagination and then allow it to refuel for the night, but I can see how stopping before it becomes exhausted will help me to never be stuck the next day.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-77998" data-commentid="77998" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-77998" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Kari" aria-label="Reply to Kari">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-78006"> <div id="div-comment-78006" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://karencioffiwritingandmarketing.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Karen Cioffi</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-78006">February 25, 2013 at 9:22 am</a> </div> <p>Great information. I never heard of #2 and #3 — interesting. I’ve shared this also.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-78006" data-commentid="78006" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-78006" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Karen Cioffi" aria-label="Reply to Karen Cioffi">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-78711"> <div id="div-comment-78711" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://www.earningguys.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Ravi Ahuja</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-78711">February 27, 2013 at 11:36 pm</a> </div> <p>Thanks for sharing, these tips will not just help to write fiction but can also help for writing blog post, books or on topic which you less aware.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-78711" data-commentid="78711" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-78711" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Ravi Ahuja" aria-label="Reply to Ravi Ahuja">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-78918"> <div id="div-comment-78918" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Susan Waterwyk</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-78918">February 28, 2013 at 2:00 pm</a> </div> <p>Outstanding Article!!! Sound advice. It made me feel as if “Papa” had sent me a personal letter. Thank you! Seven Times Thank you!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-78918" data-commentid="78918" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-78918" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Susan Waterwyk" aria-label="Reply to Susan Waterwyk">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-79333"> <div id="div-comment-79333" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://cbustami.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Bustami</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-79333">March 1, 2013 at 10:55 pm</a> </div> <p>excellent stuff.. i really love to write and still learning how to do it in fine way.. thanks</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-79333" data-commentid="79333" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-79333" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Bustami" aria-label="Reply to Bustami">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-79401"> <div id="div-comment-79401" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://iamakasha.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Akasha</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-79401">March 2, 2013 at 4:43 am</a> </div> <p>This is such a great resource, Thanks for sharing!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-79401" data-commentid="79401" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-79401" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Akasha" aria-label="Reply to Akasha">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-84672"> <div id="div-comment-84672" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://<span data-original-string="t/p8nRTPgQS28gmP9qm9ng==3b8TpyCI6hrzWU2eS/i/fAuiI1AC1gsQh0/p3LfNTH2bH8=" class="apbct-email-encoder" title="This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.">ca<span class="apbct-blur">**********@bl******.c</span>om</span>" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Hattie Norman (Topazshell)</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-84672">March 11, 2013 at 5:55 am</a> </div> <p>These are very good pointers from a master writer. Thank you.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-84672" data-commentid="84672" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-84672" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Hattie Norman (Topazshell)" aria-label="Reply to Hattie Norman (Topazshell)">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-85296"> <div id="div-comment-85296" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://www.Thinkgrowlive.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Joan Harrison</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-85296">March 12, 2013 at 2:27 am</a> </div> <p>Excellent article and so helpful to me right now. I have worked with the subconscious for some time now in other areas and to hear a writer listen to his in this intuitive way fills me with so much joy. Thank you for your hard work, greatly appreciated.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-85296" data-commentid="85296" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-85296" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Joan Harrison" aria-label="Reply to Joan Harrison">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-90008"> <div id="div-comment-90008" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Angela Grant</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-90008">March 19, 2013 at 2:29 am</a> </div> <p>Thanks for the tips. I find writing difficult and will procrastinate. Never did I think of just writing a sentence that is true. If I am to be disciplined I better start writing. :)</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-90008" data-commentid="90008" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-90008" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Angela Grant" aria-label="Reply to Angela Grant">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-93426"> <div id="div-comment-93426" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://blogsnewsreviews.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Astro Gremlin</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-93426">March 23, 2013 at 11:00 pm</a> </div> <p>Treat writing like work. We don’t get “doing the dishes block.”</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-93426" data-commentid="93426" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-93426" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Astro Gremlin" aria-label="Reply to Astro Gremlin">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-94602"> <div id="div-comment-94602" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Mitch</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-94602">March 25, 2013 at 6:37 pm</a> </div> <p>I don’t write, I bleed.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-94602" data-commentid="94602" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-94602" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Mitch" aria-label="Reply to Mitch">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-110243"> <div id="div-comment-110243" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Mariamni Heracleous</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-110243">April 17, 2013 at 9:51 am</a> </div> <p>Like Hemingway… no one else! (I believe) Thanks for the tips.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-110243" data-commentid="110243" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-110243" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Mariamni Heracleous" aria-label="Reply to Mariamni Heracleous">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-113621"> <div id="div-comment-113621" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Larry W. Phillips</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-113621">April 21, 2013 at 6:02 pm</a> </div> <p>I would add to this:<br> Some days you’re going to wake up tired of writing your book (or MS, or whatever it is). Other days you’re going to wake up tired of the whole idea of writing itself. Have a plan for those days. Get away from it. Go somewhere. Do something different. Kick back. Rake the lawn. OR: do the ‘grunt work’ on those days (like looking stuff up, verifying facts, etc)–the stuff you know you’re going to have to do someday anyway. Don’t even attempt to do the actual “writing” on those days. Use them to do the ‘house-keeping’ work; the ‘non-fun’ stuff.<br> Also: what’s worked well for me lately: write stuff out of order. (We have computers to move it into the right order later). Do this and it tends to stay fresh within itself. Start at “A” and continue in a long straight line and it can sometimes get stale and trail off into kind of parody of itself. This has really helped me lately. Write the different pieces out of order.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-113621" data-commentid="113621" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-113621" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Larry W. Phillips" aria-label="Reply to Larry W. Phillips">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-114387"> <div id="div-comment-114387" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">james black</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-114387">April 23, 2013 at 8:09 am</a> </div> <p>i have all ways thought that an author should have at lest a hands on knowledge of what he is writing . i guess it , at lest for me gives them an honest credibility. for example , a book on child rearing written by a non breeder . or a book on boxing by an author that’s never been in a fight.thanks for your time .</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-114387" data-commentid="114387" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-114387" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to james black" aria-label="Reply to james black">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-121386"> <div id="div-comment-121386" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">edgardo j</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-121386">May 7, 2013 at 11:30 am</a> </div> <p>After reading this I tried writing away from the computer and I have to say it actually helped. Just something about writing with my hand instead of typing brought a deeper concentration to what I was doing. I tried creating emotions instead of just telling them in my writing. I don’t think it came out perfect but its definitely better than what I had before. He has some great incites on writing. Glad I read this.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-121386" data-commentid="121386" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-121386" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to edgardo j" aria-label="Reply to edgardo j">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-123354"> <div id="div-comment-123354" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Stu Lev</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-123354">May 12, 2013 at 5:41 pm</a> </div> <p>Great post. Fine advice on writing, using one’s imagination is always challenging and mysterious. Sometimes a cup of coffee spurs us on. Other times we need to distance ourselves from the material for a spell to be able to see what part of our project has real value and worth. Writers block can hit us in some intensity at anytime. yet if the words always flowed like a waterfall with no effort at all would we view them as an accomplishment? No. We always have to challenge ourselves to see how far we can grow, learn and strive for excellence. Thanks for the great writing tips. Here’s a cool free writing source.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-123354" data-commentid="123354" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-123354" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Stu Lev" aria-label="Reply to Stu Lev">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-131836"> <div id="div-comment-131836" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://Www.hecramos.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Hector</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-131836">June 3, 2013 at 6:25 pm</a> </div> <p>Fantastic insights. Thank you, i will practice some of these suggestions.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-131836" data-commentid="131836" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-131836" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Hector" aria-label="Reply to Hector">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-139710"> <div id="div-comment-139710" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Tom</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-139710">July 13, 2013 at 3:00 pm</a> </div> <p>Tip #3 is useful in other applications as well. As an undergraduate philosophy student, I had one particularly difficult course with long essay exams. I would study endlessly and still do poorly until I learned to stop studying one full day before the exam and simply play — go hiking, watch a movie, be with friends. Whatever it was, I was not thinking about the material for the course. I walked the half mile to class thinking only about the walk itself. Once I learned this, my essays were clear, concise, and netted me an A on all the remaining essays for the course.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-139710" data-commentid="139710" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-139710" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Tom" aria-label="Reply to Tom">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-139769"> <div id="div-comment-139769" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://Www.vuilehuichelaar.nl" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Saskia van Zutphen, netherlands</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-139769">July 13, 2013 at 10:44 pm</a> </div> <p>Tip nr. 8: forget my tips and WRITE!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-139769" data-commentid="139769" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-139769" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Saskia van Zutphen, netherlands" aria-label="Reply to Saskia van Zutphen, netherlands">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-140505"> <div id="div-comment-140505" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">hermes birkin</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-140505">July 17, 2013 at 2:13 am</a> </div> <p>Wonderful share of this great job. Thanks for such much information.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-140505" data-commentid="140505" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-140505" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to hermes birkin" aria-label="Reply to hermes birkin">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-158386"> <div id="div-comment-158386" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">ernest</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-158386">August 25, 2013 at 12:14 am</a> </div> <p>I am a tiller and I won’t visite and get</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-158386" data-commentid="158386" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-158386" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to ernest" aria-label="Reply to ernest">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-163236"> <div id="div-comment-163236" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://ggurdjieff.com/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Gurdjieff</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-163236">November 3, 2013 at 2:21 pm</a> </div> <p>Very practical and helpful. I came across some of these reading ‘A Moveable Feast’, but not all of them and not arranged in this way. Thank you.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-163236" data-commentid="163236" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-163236" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Gurdjieff" aria-label="Reply to Gurdjieff">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1 parent" id="comment-163238"> <div id="div-comment-163238" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://www.openculture.com" class="url" rel="ugc">Open Culture</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-163238">November 3, 2013 at 2:33 pm</a> </div> <p>Does anyone happen to know what Facebook page just mentioned our post? Thanks in advance for letting us know.nCheers,nDan/editor</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-163238" data-commentid="163238" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-163238" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Open Culture" aria-label="Reply to Open Culture">Reply</a></div> </div> <ul class="children"> <li class="comment odd alt depth-2" id="comment-163240"> <div id="div-comment-163240" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Johnnie Lakes</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-163240">November 3, 2013 at 2:48 pm</a> </div> <p>Dangerous minds.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-163240" data-commentid="163240" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-163240" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Johnnie Lakes" aria-label="Reply to Johnnie Lakes">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even depth-2" id="comment-163257"> <div id="div-comment-163257" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Corelin</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-163257">November 4, 2013 at 4:59 am</a> </div> <p>Doctrine Man!! threw it up there too</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-163257" data-commentid="163257" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-163257" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Corelin" aria-label="Reply to Corelin">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt depth-2" id="comment-163261"> <div id="div-comment-163261" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Thom</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-163261">November 4, 2013 at 7:15 am</a> </div> <p>Dangerous Minds</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-163261" data-commentid="163261" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-163261" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Thom" aria-label="Reply to Thom">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-163255"> <div id="div-comment-163255" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Ada Sin Hache</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-163255">November 4, 2013 at 2:35 am</a> </div> <p>I’m mentioning your post too and sharing. I read it on DM’s wall. I really enojoyed it, thanks!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-163255" data-commentid="163255" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-163255" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Ada Sin Hache" aria-label="Reply to Ada Sin Hache">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-163288"> <div id="div-comment-163288" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Delphinus13</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-163288">November 4, 2013 at 2:12 pm</a> </div> <p>Doctrine Man’s</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-163288" data-commentid="163288" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-163288" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Delphinus13" aria-label="Reply to Delphinus13">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1216625"> <div id="div-comment-1216625" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">optimia developments</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1216625">December 27, 2013 at 12:46 am</a> </div> <p>Thanks for your great information, the contents are quiet interesting.I will be waiting for your next post.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dronastudy.co.in" rel="nofollow">free online courses</a></p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1216625" data-commentid="1216625" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1216625" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to optimia developments" aria-label="Reply to optimia developments">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-165005"> <div id="div-comment-165005" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Sean</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-165005">December 28, 2013 at 5:50 am</a> </div> <p>Interesting tips and methods to keep writing. Not forgetting Hemmingway’s style, some of these ideas are for straight novelists and not good advice for the modern hack who wants to write super-best-sellers!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-165005" data-commentid="165005" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-165005" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Sean" aria-label="Reply to Sean">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-438297"> <div id="div-comment-438297" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">ebookspdfs</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-438297">May 15, 2014 at 4:54 pm</a> </div> <p>Great post. Nice suggestions on writing, using one’s imagination is always challenging and hard to overcome. Sometimes a cup of coffee/tea spurs us on. Other times we need to distance ourselves from the material for a spell to be able to see what part of our project has real value and worth. Writers block can hit us in some intensity at anytime. yet if the words always flowed like a waterfall with no effort at all would we view them as an accomplishment? No. We always have to challenge ourselves/everyone around us to see how far we can grow, learn and strive for excellence. Thanks for the great writing tips. Here’s a cool free writing source.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-438297" data-commentid="438297" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-438297" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to ebookspdfs" aria-label="Reply to ebookspdfs">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1216397"> <div id="div-comment-1216397" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Rajshree</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1216397">August 10, 2014 at 12:33 pm</a> </div> <p>Thanks… very motivaiting n tried n tested advice</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1216397" data-commentid="1216397" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1216397" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Rajshree" aria-label="Reply to Rajshree">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1216849"> <div id="div-comment-1216849" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">H L Lowe</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1216849">September 1, 2014 at 10:17 am</a> </div> <p>Brilliant post — I was interested to read the part about writing in pencil for the first draft as I tried that for the first time with my latest novel. It really worked as Hemingway said, that you get an extra chance to improve on it when you type it up on your PC. Also, it stopped me deleting,copying & pasting, jumping backwards and forwards, when all I needed to do was get the first draft down on paper so the proper writing craft could begin with the 2nd draft. I agree, up to a point, with a comment from Sean, when he says that ‘some of these ideas are for straight novelists and not good advice for the modern hack who wants to write super-best-sellers!’ but I think you can adapt Hemingway’s advice and apply it to modern writers and the modern novel. Looking forward to next post — many thanks</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1216849" data-commentid="1216849" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1216849" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to H L Lowe" aria-label="Reply to H L Lowe">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1216995"> <div id="div-comment-1216995" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Elizabeth Cooper</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1216995">September 16, 2014 at 8:12 am</a> </div> <p>Great post, I agree with the part about writing in pencil. I did this with my first draft as well and I really enjoyed typing it into to my computer afterwards. It gave me a chance to look at my first rough draft as a whole and make changes as I went.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1216995" data-commentid="1216995" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1216995" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Elizabeth Cooper" aria-label="Reply to Elizabeth Cooper">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1217124"> <div id="div-comment-1217124" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn"><a href="http://amirsibboni.brandyourself.com/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Amir Sibboni</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1217124">September 24, 2014 at 3:09 pm</a> </div> <p>Thanks for sharing</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1217124" data-commentid="1217124" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1217124" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Amir Sibboni" aria-label="Reply to Amir Sibboni">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1217238"> <div id="div-comment-1217238" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Laina Turner</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1217238">October 1, 2014 at 8:05 am</a> </div> <p>As an author myself, it’s always nice to come across expert advice… you can always learn something new.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1217238" data-commentid="1217238" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1217238" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Laina Turner" aria-label="Reply to Laina Turner">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1278163"> <div id="div-comment-1278163" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Jenifer Ransom</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1278163">December 19, 2014 at 3:10 pm</a> </div> <p>I prefer using a pen to a pencil. Feels more flowing. It’s always been my habit to write first draft by hand. What would be the benefits of using a pencil over a pen? I am sure most of the old-time writers used pens. Anyway…yes, great tips, thanks Papa H!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1278163" data-commentid="1278163" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1278163" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Jenifer Ransom" aria-label="Reply to Jenifer Ransom">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1310369"> <div id="div-comment-1310369" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Smokin Joe</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1310369">January 24, 2015 at 8:45 pm</a> </div> <p>The first should always be. GET OUT AND LIFE! <a href="http://youtu.be/vcy5mzwmhlY" rel="nofollow ugc">http://youtu.be/vcy5mzwmhlY</a></p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1310369" data-commentid="1310369" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1310369" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Smokin Joe" aria-label="Reply to Smokin Joe">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1310372"> <div id="div-comment-1310372" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Smokin Joe</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1310372">January 24, 2015 at 8:48 pm</a> </div> <p>i’m retard, I meant to say, get out and live. I have a hard time catching my mistakes is this go round. Peace</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1310372" data-commentid="1310372" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1310372" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Smokin Joe" aria-label="Reply to Smokin Joe">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1322700"> <div id="div-comment-1322700" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Obat Jantung Bocor Tanpa Operasi</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1322700">February 3, 2015 at 3:00 am</a> </div> <p>I really enjoy reading them every day. I’ve learned a lot from them. thanks for putting an effort to publish this information.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1322700" data-commentid="1322700" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1322700" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Obat Jantung Bocor Tanpa Operasi" aria-label="Reply to Obat Jantung Bocor Tanpa Operasi">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1378692"> <div id="div-comment-1378692" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Ifeanyichukwu Aniebo</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1378692">March 24, 2015 at 8:57 am</a> </div> <p>Gurdjieff nailed it. ‘A Moveable Feast’ was by my side while I was writing my second novel. It could not be there when I was writing my first because I was in prison. For me ‘A Moveable Feast’ is my synonym for JOY. Did Hemingway come up with that title? Brilliant!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1378692" data-commentid="1378692" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1378692" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Ifeanyichukwu Aniebo" aria-label="Reply to Ifeanyichukwu Aniebo">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1437350"> <div id="div-comment-1437350" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Timothy</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1437350">May 26, 2015 at 12:58 am</a> </div> <p>Great stuff about writing!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1437350" data-commentid="1437350" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1437350" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Timothy" aria-label="Reply to Timothy">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1445801"> <div id="div-comment-1445801" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Somshekhar Patil</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1445801">June 5, 2015 at 10:30 am</a> </div> <p>WOW!! Great masterful suggestions from a great MASTER!!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1445801" data-commentid="1445801" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1445801" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Somshekhar Patil" aria-label="Reply to Somshekhar Patil">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1850924"> <div id="div-comment-1850924" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Jim Aughney</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1850924">December 12, 2015 at 8:09 pm</a> </div> <p>Hemingway was writing 80 or 90 years ago and maybe the pens weren’t as efficient as today.<br> Pencil can always be erased if you make a mess whereas a few corrections with ballpoint are yuck.<br> I’ve written songs and poems as well as 30 years daily journalism and pencil works very well in songs/music — just erase Dmaj and put in C.<br> Hemingway would inspire me to write a novel.<br> That idea of leaving something for the next day is exactly how film-makers work with TV dramas etc — leave something about to happen.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1850924" data-commentid="1850924" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1850924" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Jim Aughney" aria-label="Reply to Jim Aughney">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1855767"> <div id="div-comment-1855767" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">David Oak</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1855767">December 17, 2015 at 7:45 pm</a> </div> <p>Very helpful to anyone wanting to write with honesty and clarity.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1855767" data-commentid="1855767" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1855767" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to David Oak" aria-label="Reply to David Oak">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1857816"> <div id="div-comment-1857816" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">NutiMed</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1857816">December 20, 2015 at 6:24 pm</a> </div> <p>Thanks for sharing.<br> Thank Ernest Hemingway :)</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1857816" data-commentid="1857816" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1857816" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to NutiMed" aria-label="Reply to NutiMed">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1898572"> <div id="div-comment-1898572" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Johin Rastogi</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1898572">January 22, 2016 at 10:35 am</a> </div> <p>Just admiring your work.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1898572" data-commentid="1898572" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1898572" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Johin Rastogi" aria-label="Reply to Johin Rastogi">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1901785"> <div id="div-comment-1901785" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Tony</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1901785">January 24, 2016 at 10:30 am</a> </div> <p>Overabundance is more like it.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1901785" data-commentid="1901785" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1901785" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Tony" aria-label="Reply to Tony">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-1940394"> <div id="div-comment-1940394" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Joan Condon</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1940394">April 15, 2016 at 7:24 pm</a> </div> <p>Today I wrote a complete sentence.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1940394" data-commentid="1940394" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1940394" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Joan Condon" aria-label="Reply to Joan Condon">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1967689"> <div id="div-comment-1967689" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Saira</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-1967689">June 21, 2016 at 11:23 am</a> </div> <p>Thank you for this! I am so glad I came across such a piece. Reblogging!</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-1967689" data-commentid="1967689" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-1967689" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Saira" aria-label="Reply to Saira">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-2094258"> <div id="div-comment-2094258" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Oue</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2094258">December 7, 2016 at 9:44 pm</a> </div> <p>Hemingway’s “short, declarative sentences,” are poorly constructed to a truly remarkable degree. They have an amateurish sound to them that is so prominent, I am astonished more people (especially literary critics) have not pointed this out. I know that Hemingway is often considered “The Greatest Writer Who Ever Lived” by many people, and his prose frequently receives an inordinate amount of praise. I cannot understand this. Professional editors routinely REJECT stories that are written like Hemingway’s, often simply BECAUSE of the writing. It is literally the worst prose of any supposedly “great” writer in all of English literature.</p> <p>For example, here is a bit of typical Hemingway prose from one of his books:</p> <p>“It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.” </p> <p>ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p> <p>Besides being astoundingly boring, there are so many things wrong with this passage (like most of Hemingway’s prose in general) that it’s hard to know where to begin. First of all, it reads very oddly. It feels like someone has awkwardly spliced together several different sentences to make even SHORTER sentences. It feels stilted. It feels like someone has gone in with scissors and snipped out certain words that probably should be there (a common Hemingway habit), making it sound jarring and disjointed. (Hemingway didn’t like “big words,” whatever THOSE ultimately are.) Amateur writers (and bad writers) often try to force their writing to sound a certain way (which we know that Hemingway did, since he wrote about this constantly), to give themselves a prose voice of depth and profundity that they don’t naturally have, and it shows. Such efforts frequently sound stilted, awkward, and unnatural, just like the above passage. It’s easy to tell when a writer is deliberately interfering with the natural process of smoothly putting words on a page, and seasoned professionals don’t do this. And unfortunately, pretty much all of Hemingway’s writing sounds rather like the above quote.</p> <p>Hemingway had an awful lot to say about how to craft one’s own style of writing (which, according to author Stephen King, is quite impossible). Hemingway had all kinds of grand literary theories and principles about how he thought writing SHOULD be, and it’s often much more interesting to read what Hemingway wrote about HOW to write, rather than to read his actual books — another sure sign of a bad (or amateur) writer. Hemingway came up with a lot of these ideas when he was a young and inexperienced writer, and he unfortunately stuck with most of them his entire life. The most notorious of them is his “Iceberg Theory of Writing,” the idea that 80–90 percent of your story should exist “below the surface” (unwritten.) It sounds great on paper, but in practice, unless the 10 percent of the story that you actually DO write is very, very interesting, you probably won’t end up with much of a good story. I know writers who struggle to write down even just 60 to 70 percent of the story they want to tell, and even then, it can be difficult to keep a story interesting. 10 percent is slim pickings indeed. This likely helps explain why Hemingway’s stories are often so dramatically dull, and don’t translate well to film; not much happens in them. They’re not very interesting. Unlike the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, whose stories make astonishing dramatic movies, and whom I consider to be a vastly superior writer to Hemingway.</p> <p>So in summary, with his forced, unnatural writing, awkward and cramped short sentences, and dull, undramatic stories, why is Hemingway so famous? I think it’s just an accident, really. I think he just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and for no other reason. Editors frequently say that there are absolutely no rules in the publishing business, about why one writer becomes famous, and another does not. If it happens, then it happens. I think Hemingway is just an overall bad writer who got very, very lucky – and I think he has been unfairly held up for years before the rest of us as what a writer SHOULD be, despite his rather boring stories, badly-written prose, and unnaturally cramped-sounding short sentences.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2094258" data-commentid="2094258" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2094258" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Oue" aria-label="Reply to Oue">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-2193879"> <div id="div-comment-2193879" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Martin</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2193879">August 3, 2017 at 11:39 am</a> </div> <p>I am very interested writing novels, EBooks and stories, but I am not sure how to write the top notch novel, I did a Google search and found one of the guide it helps me to write top notch novel book within few days, The method explain in the guide it created me to think differently, I felt some writer had come to my mind and I done perfectly, Before writing any novel, books or stories, I recommended this guide to all, before writing any E‑books read at least one time.<br> Check here » ( go2l.ink/novel ) «<br> Writing good eBooks is one of the good skill set</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2193879" data-commentid="2193879" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2193879" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Martin" aria-label="Reply to Martin">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-2244281"> <div id="div-comment-2244281" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Ronnie</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2244281">November 6, 2017 at 5:09 am</a> </div> <p>Hello Guys I Really Like This a Lot. I Must Thankful to you for Sharing this Important Information. Hemingway was writing 70 or 80 years ago and maybe the pens weren’t as efficient as today.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2244281" data-commentid="2244281" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2244281" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Ronnie" aria-label="Reply to Ronnie">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-2285752"> <div id="div-comment-2285752" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Marianne</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2285752">January 27, 2018 at 6:31 pm</a> </div> <p>Interesting. Well before I saw these posts, I was getting a novel together by writing independent blocks completely separately. Of course, I know how the parts tie together, but I am writing them as ideas come. This way, I never have a writers “block”. </p> <p>I loved reading the posts but I find that trying to force someone else’s methods onto oneself might not be the best way to write. Still, I appreciate everyone’s ideas. Marianne</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2285752" data-commentid="2285752" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2285752" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Marianne" aria-label="Reply to Marianne">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-2288967"> <div id="div-comment-2288967" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Paul Sisco</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2288967">February 6, 2018 at 4:24 am</a> </div> <p>It was my favorite American poet William Carlos Williams who said of writing something to the effect of .… “…99% of what you will write isn’t worth the paper its written on, but %100 is worth less unless you put the pencil to the paper.</p> <p>writers write, that’s key.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2288967" data-commentid="2288967" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2288967" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Paul Sisco" aria-label="Reply to Paul Sisco">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-2325285"> <div id="div-comment-2325285" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">JOSH MEDELLE</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2325285">June 8, 2018 at 1:08 pm</a> </div> <p>Thank u for your article…it really helped me a lot</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2325285" data-commentid="2325285" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2325285" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to JOSH MEDELLE" aria-label="Reply to JOSH MEDELLE">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-2402409"> <div id="div-comment-2402409" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Mithun das</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2402409">November 7, 2018 at 1:01 am</a> </div> <p>Nice tips, you are great to describe</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2402409" data-commentid="2402409" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2402409" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Mithun das" aria-label="Reply to Mithun das">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-2402412"> <div id="div-comment-2402412" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Radhika Roy</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2402412">November 7, 2018 at 1:05 am</a> </div> <p>can you give a way for seo</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2402412" data-commentid="2402412" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2402412" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Radhika Roy" aria-label="Reply to Radhika Roy">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-2665340"> <div id="div-comment-2665340" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Apendu Ganguly</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2665340">July 25, 2019 at 5:58 am</a> </div> <p>Another very important tip which Ernest Hemingway perhaps forgot to mention is using simple language.<br> “Old Man and the Sea” is a classic example of simple language.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2665340" data-commentid="2665340" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2665340" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Apendu Ganguly" aria-label="Reply to Apendu Ganguly">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-2774390"> <div id="div-comment-2774390" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">AsfandBoss1122</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-2774390">April 4, 2020 at 1:42 am</a> </div> <p>I am very much grateful for your efforts put on this article,<br> This article is very informative, updated and transparent. Thanks for sharing this kind of great work.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-2774390" data-commentid="2774390" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-2774390" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to AsfandBoss1122" aria-label="Reply to AsfandBoss1122">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-3285413"> <div id="div-comment-3285413" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Gerald</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-3285413">January 4, 2023 at 6:54 am</a> </div> <p>While composing an original an essayist ought to make living individuals; individuals not characters. A person is a cartoon.</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3285413" data-commentid="3285413" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-3285413" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Gerald" aria-label="Reply to Gerald">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="comment-3326193"> <div id="div-comment-3326193" class="comment-body"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <cite class="fn">Animal</cite> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#comment-3326193">June 6, 2023 at 10:10 pm</a> </div> <p>this site is very good</p> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3326193" data-commentid="3326193" data-postid="56427" data-belowelement="div-comment-3326193" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Animal" aria-label="Reply to Animal">Reply</a></div> </div> </li> </ul> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"></div>  </div> </div> <div class="cbInner"> <div id="commentsform"> <input type='hidden' name='comment_post_ID' value='56427' id='comment_post_ID' /> <input type='hidden' name='comment_parent' id='comment_parent' value='0' />  <h3>Leave a Reply</h3> <div id="respond"> <form action="https://www.openculture.com/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p><label>Name (required)</label> <input type="text" name="author" id="s1" value="" size="30" tabindex="1" /> </p> <p><label>Email (required)</label> <input type="text" name="email" id="s2" value="" size="30" tabindex="2" /> </p>   <p><label>Message</label> <div id="commenttextarea"> <textarea name="comment" id="comment" tabindex="4"></textarea> </div> </p> <p class="cmmt_sub"> <input type="submit" style="color: white; font-size:1.2rem;width:12rem" class="button" tabindex="5" value="Submit" /> <div id="cancel-comment-reply"> <small><a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-comment-reply-link" href="/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html#respond" style="display:none;">Click here to cancel reply.</a></small></div> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="56427" /> </p> <div><input type="hidden" id="wphc_value" name="wphc_value" value=""/></div><noscript><div><small>Wordpress Hashcash needs javascript to work, but your browser has javascript disabled. 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