As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
Love is The answer
Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.
You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.
You Never Have To Worry About Forgetting Anything, If You Just Tell The Truth.
Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of yo...
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyo...
What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?
Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one.
Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!
When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of them that believes--nay, knows--the world turns for the...
Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.
Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.
In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.
Every day, live in a way that honors who you are.
That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.