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Nobody Has to Die…To Fix Your Book

September 12, 2013September 8, 2013Leave a comment

“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

― Anne Enright

Writing for the love of money? Probably not.

September 6, 2013September 6, 2013Leave a comment

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that’s not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

― Greg Curtis

Your English Professor…didn’t help you.

September 4, 2013September 8, 2013Leave a comment

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.”

― Dean Wesley Smith

Like Your Biographies, Hate Your Fiction…?

August 31, 2013August 24, 20131 Comment

“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they’re about people the writer doesn’t like very much.”

― Penelope Fitzgerald

The Need to Kill…Your Characters

August 27, 2013August 27, 2013Leave a comment

“There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.”

― Caris O’Malley

No Foolish, Unless a Fool

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“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

― Charles P. Steinmetz

Principles of Fiction…?

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“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren’t any.”

― Teri Louise Kelly

More Rhyming, and I Mean It!

August 17, 2013July 21, 2013Leave a comment

“When you’ve got a thing to say,
Say it! Don’t take half a day.

When your tale’s got little in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute!

Life is short–a fleeting vapor–
Don’t you fill the whole blamed paper

With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch!

Boil her down until she simmers,
Polish her until she glimmers.”

― Joel Chandler Harris

Invented Stories

August 15, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they were intimately about me – family tales, parental exploits – sometimes they became horrific stories sprinkled with torture, death, and reunion: crazy games and tear-soaked sagas.”

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Nobody Has to Die…To Fix Your Book

“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

― Anne Enright

Writing for the love of money? Probably not.

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that’s not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

― Greg Curtis

Your English Professor…didn’t help you.

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.”

― Dean Wesley Smith

Like Your Biographies, Hate Your Fiction…?

“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they’re about people the writer doesn’t like very much.”

― Penelope Fitzgerald

The Need to Kill…Your Characters

“There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.”

― Caris O’Malley

No Foolish, Unless a Fool

“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

― Charles P. Steinmetz

Principles of Fiction…?

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren’t any.”

― Teri Louise Kelly

More Rhyming, and I Mean It!

“When you’ve got a thing to say,
Say it! Don’t take half a day.

When your tale’s got little in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute!

Life is short–a fleeting vapor–
Don’t you fill the whole blamed paper

With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch!

Boil her down until she simmers,
Polish her until she glimmers.”

― Joel Chandler Harris

Invented Stories

― Philippe Grimbert, Memory

Learn By…

“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”

― John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

― Anne Enright

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“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that’s not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

― Greg Curtis

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“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.”

― Dean Wesley Smith

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“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they’re about people the writer doesn’t like very much.”

― Penelope Fitzgerald

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“There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.”

― Caris O’Malley

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“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

― Charles P. Steinmetz

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“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren’t any.”

― Teri Louise Kelly

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“When you’ve got a thing to say, Say it! Don’t take half a day.

When your tale’s got little in it Crowd the whole thing in a minute!

Life is short–a fleeting vapor– Don’t you fill the whole blamed paper

With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch!

Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers.”

― Joel Chandler Harris

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― Philippe Grimbert, Memory

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“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”

― John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

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“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

“When you’ve got a thing to say,
Say it! Don’t take half a day.

When your tale’s got little in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute!

Life is short–a fleeting vapor–
Don’t you fill the whole blamed paper

With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch!

Boil her down until she simmers,
Polish her until she glimmers.”