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.
Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.
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...
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...
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.
Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the irresponsibility of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when compared to life, because it is first and foremo...
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...
Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.
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.
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.
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.
Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.
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.
You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.