Read. Write. Read some more. Explore the universe through your writing. Practice and learn what moves you and what doesn't.
WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!
Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.
I've been rejected a hundred times. It just takes that one person who totally believes in you!
Fresh writing and an original twist on an old idea. As much as this term is hated in the industry, it doesn't make it any less true. High concept. Simply put, you take a universal concept, something t...
Screw the beaten path! Do your thing. Write the best story you can. the rest will fall into place.
ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.
A love of writing is far greater than any word count.
Don't let writers block push you around. Figure out what the problem is,whether it's with the ms or it's in your personal life, and face it head on. Don't stop writing. Just try really hard to work th...
Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!
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.
writing - like any art - is so damned personal that there really isn't a right way to do it. You do what works for you; what matters is getting the words on the paper. Sure, if you hear advice, and it...
Graft at your craft!
How to write a book? Start writing,continue writing and finish writing.
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not commun...
I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as a pianist runs his scales for ten years before he gives his concert: because when he gives that conc...
What you don't write is often more important than what you do
If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
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