on-writing

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half of a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess.

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.

Am I making something worth while?I__ not sure.I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,but am I making something worth while?I__ not sure.There was a boy last night who I never spoke to because I was too drunk and still shy, but mostly lonely, and I couldn__ find anything lightly to say,so I simply walked awaybut still wondered what he did with his lifebecause he didn__ even speak to meor look at mebut still made me wonder who he wasand I walked away askingAm I making something worth while?I am not sure.I am a complicated person with a simple lifeand I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, __ distillation of rumor,_ or, as Napoleon said, __ set of lies generally agreed upon

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don__ suffocate your heart.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

Don__ interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.