Having a Care Package relationship keeps a character from being completely selfish.
Give yourself permission to be bad. Write first, polish later.
The Super Structure Principle may be stated as follows: The power of your story is directly proportional to the readers’ experience of it, and the readers’ experience is directly proportional to the s...
You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.
Other men’s sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our back.
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...
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
If you up your skill and take more chances, your odds of success increase.
I was in the house alone. That's usually the case because I'm writing and my wife is out in the real world doing something of great value and being with actual people. People who are not tied down to...
At least ten writing sessions.
Start by asking if this is writer’s laziness as opposed to writer’s block.
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.
Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are the...
Transformation is about change, and change needs to be proven. People can talk a good game. Someone can say he's sorry for stealing and wants to go straight. But until the thief returns the goods, we...
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. – Benjamin Franklin
When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb with a pencil and a ten-cent notebook, and start the whole thing all over again. – Preston Sturges
You must want it enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then yo...
To be a writer, you have to write. Not like it's your job, and not like it's your love. You have to write like it's your holy chore, you have to write like you are compelled from above and within and...
While there is some disagreement over the official length of a short story, a good rule of thumb is that it is between 1k and 7k words. Less than that and you get into the area of flash fiction. More...
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