Writing Advice | Writing Advice
Feb.11.2013
Write like no one is watching; revise like everyone will be reading.
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Feb.10.2013
Never let it be said of you that you never met a simile you didn’t like.
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Feb.09.2013
If the world ended tomorrow, would you be happy with what you’d written today or do you secretly long to be a different kind of writer – if the latter, what do you plan to do about it?
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Feb.08.2013
Aristotle taught that a climax should be at once surprising and inevitable – do you think you could manage to be Aristotelian?
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Feb.07.2013
If you can possibly manage it, go out with a bang and not a whimper.
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Feb.06.2013
Always put off until tomorrow what you can put off until tomorrow if it would interfere with your writing today.
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Feb.05.2013
Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest places: “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” ~ Richard M. Nixon
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Feb.04.2013
Some people will insist that your main character must be instantly likable and sympathetic but I’m guessing those people never encountered Scarlett O’Hara or Ebenezer Scrooge?
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Feb.01.2013
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then the enemy of the em dash is the ellipsis – you figure it out...
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Jan.31.2013
Agents at conferences are not benevolent gods and goddesses there to perform charitable acts out of the kindness of their hearts; rather, they are businesspeople, like you, looking to make what they hope will be profitable connections, so behave accordingly, no kowtowing necessary.
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