You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to w...
When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!
I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in...
The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.
Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder,...
You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.
I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way. Of course, the ability to create life with words is essentially a gift. If you...
As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.