If there is method here, it is hard to discern it. Let it be repeated: the use of capitals is a matter not or rules but of taste; but consistency is at least not a mark of bad taste.
As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.
For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since...
If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.
He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these a...
Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.
People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.
The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.
Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemingl...
I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!
I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack
Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for perversity's sake, and all the better for that; the image created becaus...
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact...
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.