Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.
You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.
Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.
If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto
What you don't write is often more important than what you do
Cutting words can cut your readers but if the intention is pure, the story will resonate loud and true.
I've been rejected a hundred times. It just takes that one person who totally believes in you!
Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.
WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!
Read. Write. Read some more. Explore the universe through your writing. Practice and learn what moves you and what doesn't.
Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.
Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. Th...
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...
Act one: put your characters in a tree. Act two: throw rocks at them. Act three: get them down again.
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