If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other...
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you put your pet-peeve message before story, odds are you are going to bore the shit o...
Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.
Graft at your craft!
Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human...
Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits delivers on time. The aspiring author who is...
Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...
You can only write well ,what you have lived.
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.
Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring vs. banter, the character development, the world-building become m...
People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.
Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.
When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story
6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and the depth of their meanings, the characters movements to...
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhe...
Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on to the end; because you do not analyze. Your heroes do this thing or that from this or...