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The plus-size Jewish redneck lady has died: The ultimate obituary.

December 21, 2021

Folks, if you’re a fan of this blog, then you know how much I love great writing. Well, this is the ultimate obituary, Read More...

An angry man called me today about an apparent ghostwriting scam.

October 5, 2021December 21, 2021

This morning I got a call from an angry man. He said he paid us $7,000, nobody’s been answering the phone and he demanded to Read More...

An honest email conversation about dealing with a client who wrote a problematic screenplay.

September 2, 2021September 3, 2021

This is an email conversation between me and one of my writers. I assigned him a screenplay client. And this writer is a recent Read More...

It’s time to put on my big boy pants.

August 28, 2021August 28, 2021

Ever since this business was launched way back in 2002, record keeping, client info, writer info, project assignments and Read More...

We’ve begun producing our own videos!

We are in the process of making several informative and useful (and hopefully a bit witty) videos on the things we do here. Read More...

Let’s talk about reputation and integrity.

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

One concern a prospective client has is whether the writer they are considering hiring is an honorable person. The concern Read More...

A story about the filthiest boxing gym in New York.

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021

So today I played a black and white movie I recorded from Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar. It was Somebody Up There Likes Read More...

Our new logo. What do you think?

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021

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The real-life word cops: Feds hoping to clarify language.

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

Found in today’s Los Angeles Times. Who knew? Certainly not I. Apparently there is something called the Plain Writing Act and it Read More...

Novelists are moving into TV writers’ rooms.

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021

The Los Angeles Times published a story on February 11, 2021, focusing on the tale of novelist Sheri Holman. She’s Read More...

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

Dan Poynter

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

Stephen King

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

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

Raymond Chandler

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

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

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

Stephen Wright

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

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

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman