The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.
It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
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.
If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other...
If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.
Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhe...
There is one myth about writers that I have always felt was particularly pernicious and untruthful—the myth of the lonely writer, the myth that writing is a lonely occupation, involving much suffering...
Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits delivers on time. The aspiring author who is...
In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.
When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.
Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN
Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex i...
While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.
Being a writer, I think, is much like being a parent or a pet parent in my case. I love all of my characters equally, even if I want you to hate them, I love them. If you don't love all your character...
Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
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.
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