writing-advice-process

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

I think if a writer is being honest they__ admit to a file full of a dozen or more stories that are all started to varying degrees. They__e like the kid who wants to be a firefighter and a police officer and an astronaut.

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 will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.

It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.

Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.

In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.