Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach the edge. Then be kind and rewind.

Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

One thing I__ realized in the last year was that there were some things no one could give you permission to do. All the same, it didn__ mean you couldn__ or shouldn__ do them_ particularly when it came to the big things, like saving the world, or journeying to a supernatural seam between realities, or bringing your boyfriend back from the dead.

The obvious matters are more imperceptible today.