There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.
Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move...
Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.
Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely goo...
Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
Clarity trumps all rules.
Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.
A love of writing is far greater than any word count.
Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around.
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay
. . . But then you will want to put that {publication} behind you right away. You will want to recover the obscurity you swim best through. You've got eternal youth there. You'll never be satisfied. I...
Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.
To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!
Problem, purpose, conflict, goal. Use them. Think about them while you are in the planning phase of your novel; keep these elements at the back of your mind to guide you while you write. When you have...
When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.
Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.
Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.