Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning reveale...
Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING
Writing is a struggle against silence.
The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world go...
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to writ...
I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.
Sifting through long forgotten stories of my childhood and writing on a daily basis, I became obsessed with following the threads of my memories, one leading to another. I start pulling on a single, s...
There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.
Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with the rejections. Tape them up on your office wall, to remind you of...
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.
The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.
The structured form of an outline helps us to keep track of all plot lines in a series, and of course, this diminishes the chance of plot holes for us.
It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by...
I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God is good to us, we write in such a way that the act of reading becomes a pleas...
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