Sumia Sukkar's Blog

Couldn’t have said it better myself! 

Hell yeah they do! I must say I always believed that I needed to be in a state of mind to write but then I learnt that I never get writing done that way. Had it not been for a daunting deadline and a publishers emails I probably wouldn’t have learnt this! Setting a schedule is TRES vital. If you want to get your novel out there set a deadline for yourself and persevere. The hardest part is that you must keep writing and not look back. Don’t look back at your work! You’ll have plenty of time to do that once you have your first manuscript. It’s going to be a messy first draft with mistakes and cringing sentences but you’ll have all your ideas on paper and now you can start to polish it. 

Happy writing!

My read of the week!

The ugly truth

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Jean- Luc Godard

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The best and constant advice creative writing lecturers give is ‘Free writing is the way to go’. I have come to find out that free writing is the best way to warm up your mind for the great ideas you have in store that are tangled between the webs in your mind. You know that feeling when you have an idea but you can’t put it onto paper? Of course you do! Well free writing breaks you free from that curse. Keeping a note book on your bedside table and always having one on the move gives you the chance to spill all the words you have in store whether they make sense or not! You’ll often find yourself writing gibberish and making up thoughts that you are apparently thinking. But amongst your pretentious ‘thoughts’ you’ll find your new character or scene or even title. 

As an emerging writer and a recent university graduate I have been following this exact advice, and believe you me, I have found many of my dialogues and scenes amid the confusion of my notebook.

Happy writing! 

Taking a break from the jumbled words on my paper.

““Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.”

1Q84, Haruki Murakami”

“"Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves."

1Q84, Haruki Murakami”