Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
I don't think you cross the line - I think you move the line.
Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.