Sunday, February 11, 2018

No tears in the writer

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

― Robert Frost, from "The Figure a Poem Makes," 1939


What does this quote mean to you? Does your story ever surprise you? Does it evoke a strong emotional reaction—not the trickiness of trying to get it "right," or make it "good," but the story and characters themselves? Do they feel that real to you? Do you ever find it's a struggle to care about them?





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