writers-life

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

Good editors are priceless.

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!

As with writing by candlelight, one__ greatest ideas come from __he flickering_ between darkness and light.

The power of the delete key.

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

Write on!

There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...

Publish a book before you__e too old to read it without glasses.

I don__ do math.

A cliffhanger is when ...

Me to characters: talk to me people.