People apparently do love us on Yelp!

06 Apr, 2017

I received a letter from Yelp:

CONGRATULATIONS! PEOPLE LOVE GHOSTWRITERS CENTRAL ON YELP!

Dear Ghostwriters Central, We're proud to recognize Ghostwriters Central for the positive ratings and reviews you've earned on Yelp in the last year: A 5-out-of-5-star rating, and several reviews. Our visitors love Ghostwriters Central! In recognition of your accomplishment, we're presenting you with the "People Love Us On Yelp" sticker, which is only awarded to the most highly-rated and best-reviewed businesses on Yelp. Display your "People Love Us On Yelp" sticker on a door, window or other high-traffic area to show current and potential customers that:

Your business can be found on the world's largest business review site;
Your business is highly rated by the Yelp community, and
You value customer feedback and encourage engagement with your business.

Yelp connects millions of monthly visitors with great local businesses all over the world. So thank you for your continued efforts to provide great services and business to this community. Congratulations again on your accomplishment, and we look forward to working with you in 2017. Sweet! I could not resist fixing some grammatical problems with the letter in the reproduction above. What can I say? It's a compulsion. A big thank you to everyone who reviewed us.

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I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

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.

Anton Chekhov

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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.

Michael Crichton

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams