Steve Edwards

Here are my top 3 tips for writing:

1) Effing relax. If your story is going to resonate it needs to sink down into all your hollow places. Tightness keeps it squeezed inside your brain. Breathe.
Steve Edwards

2) Pleasure. Take pleasure in words & images, the movement of a thought, the memories that surface, the insights, the rhythms an undeniable truth pounds out. You’ll never feel validated by publication—but if you take pleasure in the humble act of creation you can feel satisfied.
Steve Edwards

3) Never explain. What you were trying to say or what it meant. Or why you wrote it. Or why it matters. Or why you need to sit in a room alone staring at the wall for hours on end. That part of you belongs to no one, not even you, & you’ll only diminish it by explaining. Go. Do.

- Steve Edwards @The_Big_Quiet