This is an amazing image to start the new year off right, don’t you agree? This is Dragon Year by Malaysian deviantartist Meoon, and it was created back in 2012, which was the Year of the Dragon according to the Chinese Horoscope. We’re just finishing up the Year of the Monkey, and we’ll be…
You can be sane and still be an artist. – John Green It turns out that NerdCon: Stories 2016 was such an awesome convention, and I have so much that I want to tell you about — I discovered authors, books, board games, projects, just so much stuff — but writing hasn’t been my top…
There is only one plot. Things are not what they seem. — Jim Thompson When I set out to create these writing thoughts posts each week, I usually peruse a list of quotes by well-known authors and latch on to the first one to really grab my attention that day. Today that is exactly what…
Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. — Lawrence Kasdan, screenplay writer and author Kasdan, the screenplay writer of some major motion pictures in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises among other things, is 100% correct. Being a writer, and especially a daily blogger, means I’ve signed myself…
[T]he human brain is driven, in large part, by its need to assess plans: providing motivation to act on good plans, and reducing motivation (which we experience as procrastination) to act on flawed plans. The problem for the would-be writer is that the brain does not necessarily distinguish between your vague and abstract goal, to…
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain I’ve always liked this quote, although it wasn’t until I went looking for the source that I realized most of…
There exists no one way toward becoming a professional writer. You cannot perfectly walk another’s journey. … We all chart our own course and burn the map afterward. It’s just how it is. If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking. — Chuck Wendig, author, screenwriter, game designer, and…
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. — E. L. Doctorow So I’ve had planning on my mind a lot lately, since my husband and I are taking a vacation with our best friends to Florida for two weeks,…
A writer doesn’t dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations. — C.K. Webb All right, so I know this is true in my heart… but to be honest,…
Isn’t [a writer] knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a world that seems complete in itself; she builds a stage set and painstakingly hides all the struts and wires and nail holes, then stands back…
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