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Another victim from Hawaii.

October 14, 2022June 4, 2026

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Wanted: Someone who works for free.

October 12, 2022June 4, 2026

Interesting. However, none of my writers works for free. And you don’t work for free, either. Can’t help you. Michael McKown Read More...

It’s tough being a writer. You kill several people and you lose your appetite.

August 7, 2022June 4, 2026

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Thoughts while reading a digital pile of screenplays.

August 3, 2022June 4, 2026

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If they don’t have a phone number, tell ’em to get lost.

June 10, 2022June 4, 2026

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The real-life, super immediate critical priority rush wedding toast story.

May 23, 2022June 4, 2026

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Useful advice from a successful screenwriter.

March 9, 2022June 4, 2026

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Three new wedding-related articles are now online.

February 23, 2022June 4, 2026

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

December 21, 2021June 4, 2026

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

October 5, 2021June 4, 2026

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There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Dan Poynter

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

Lawrence Wray

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

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

E. B. White

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

T.S. Eliot

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.