In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.
Start by asking if this is writer’s laziness as opposed to writer’s block.
Ernest Hemingway had a rather personal way to describe first drafts. To paraphrase, he said all of them are like, ahem, biological waste.
Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.
At least ten writing sessions.
Sometimes writing a novel feels about as rewarding as turning a spit in the fires of hell.
Good writers are good readers.
Grief was not a stream. It was an ocean.
If you up your skill and take more chances, your odds of success increase.
A great novel is the record of how a character fights with death.
A quirky, colorful character overstays her welcome after a few chapters, unless trouble comes calling.
You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.
Someone with less talent who works hard often outperforms the gifted.
Having a Care Package relationship keeps a character from being completely selfish.
Other men’s sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our back.
Give yourself permission to be bad. Write first, polish later.
Dwight Swain, the great writing teacher, once said that the secret of excitement is to go deeper into your characters. Create more backstory, more secrets, more complexity, and you'll get excited agai...
It’s quite interesting to note that Townes’s colleagues at Columbia were skeptical of his idea. Niels Bohr, one of the great quantum physicists, and Nobel laureate Isadore Rabi, head of the university...
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. – Benjamin Franklin
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