Linear Writing Quotes

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of writing itself keeps the mind active and focused on the job at hand. Usually I write in about 5 drafts, but that simply means there are 5 definite times when I go in a linear fashion from the beginning to the end of the book.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.