From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As for dr...
Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.
And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable.
Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you w...
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...
The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.
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.
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...
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.
Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!
Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.
They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.
If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; howev...
Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.
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