Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation--who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him--but he must go on writin...
If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.
I keep being told that my writing is getting better and better. - Now, at first I am thrilled by that, but then I think, Isn't everybody's? Do some authors grow cozy with their own style, and stay the...
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.
That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.
You may ask, why not simply call this literature Christian? Unfortunately, the word Christian is no longer reliable. It has come to mean anyone with a golden heart. And a golden heart would be a posit...
This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind.
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...
Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.
For his lunch break, Alex decided to sit outside for a smoke. There was no break room to speak of, just a backdoor that led to a neglected parking lot and an old payphone. There was an upturned crate...
Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.
Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.
Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships...
Fantasy or fiction is just a persons secret life. A world they want to be in. The only diffrence between them and you, is that they wrote it down in detail, printed it and shared it with the world.
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
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