
Every now and then we get a tip for services well rendered. Today, this arrived in the hands of our chief writer from one of our Read More...
He promptly notified me and I asked him to send me half. We are, after all, partners. :)
Sweet!
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.
If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.
Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.
It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.
























