You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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...
A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.
All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.
Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends...
think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to f...
Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.
Graft at your craft!
Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily...
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.
Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else. A little earlier I said that stories were about life; perhaps they're made of life.
Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.
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...
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will lear...
To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth...
Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.
From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!
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