When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.
What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?
Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and sh...
... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise...
Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm una...
We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.
Storytelling is inherently dangerous. Consider a traumatic event in your life. Think about how you experienced it. Now think about how you told it to someone a year later. Now think about how you told...
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.
Nothing listens as well as a blank page.
Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
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.
Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.
I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.
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.
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out...