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…
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. ~ Dan Greenburg Oh my goodness, isn’t this the truth! This quote comes from Dan Greenburg, author of seventy-three books including the adult thrillers Exes, Love Kills, and Fear Itself, and the children’s series The Zack Files, and it goes…
I had to change up my post tonight to honor the victims of the horrible terror attack that took place in Orlando just over twenty-six hours ago at the Pulse nightclub, and I found this beautiful art called Love for Pulse, Love for Orlando by American deviantartist RefiBones. Even though I’m more than fifteen hundred…
Adventure is love in strange places. It is whatever is exotic and strange. Adventure is doing things we’ll probably never do, going to the brink of danger and returning safely. – Ronald B. Tobias, 20 Master Plots and How to Build Them As you might imagine, while I’ve been wrestling with the current Neeka chapter and…
A simple word or phrase on a blank sheet of paper gathers momentum as I wonder at what it could mean, where it could take place, why, and what if? . . . And then, I write. ~ Tyrean Martinson, A Jumble of 500+ Writing Prompts I found this quote very appropriate for today as I contemplate…
Write what you know about dragons! ~ Scott Westerfeld on Instagram 5/14/16 I had to share this for my Writing Thoughts this week, because it’s just such good advice, don’t you think? 🙂 I ran across this picture today of Scott Westerfeld, the author of eighteen YA and adult novels, through the Facebook page of Todd…
Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job–one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their…
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest inventions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns…
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved,…
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