Week 10 Story Lab

(Advice Key from Flickr)

     For this story lab I chose to take the advice to writers option, to look for some advice that may help me in the future. Below are listed some pieces of advice that I thought would be helpful to me in my writing.

• "There is probably some long-standing “rule” among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: “When you start stealing from your own work you’re in bad trouble.” And it may be true. - Hunter S. Thompson

   I chose this quote because I tend to write up similar stories. By that, I mean I tend to write up stories that are based around a moral lesson or can relate to the real world, and don't always look at new options.

• Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I’ve seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I’ve felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I’m careful about what I give voice to. - Toni Cade Bambara

  I chose this quote because it relates heavily to every day life. Words can truly set things in motion. This is true with many things such as politics or gossip. Words can lead to drastic change, and you can never take them back. So people should be careful what they write.

• You must read everything, and you must let it all the way into your life, all the way into the part of you that makes writing, and you must let every good thing in — none of this reading a few lines of so-and-so with the hope that you might write something that sounds like it. - Sarah Manguso

  I chose this quote because I have a very bad tendency to skim things whenever I read them. It is a bad habit that I have tried to break but I end up going back to it usually. At a base level I think that this quote means to go through all of it. At a deeper level I feel like this quote means to read into everything in life, rather than just a bit of it.