“Never put a scene you don't love in your book.”
― 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love
― 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love
“Who is the writer here? YOU ARE. Whose book is it? YOUR BOOK. There are no writing police. No one is going to arrest you if you write a teen vampire novel post Twilight. No one is going to send you off to a desert island to live a wretched life of worm eating and regret because your book includes things that could be seen as cliché.”
― 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love
― 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love
“do NOT go pulling things you like out of your novel because some forum person told you your idea "won't sell.”
― 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love
― 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love
“Putting my book down should be the hardest thing my reader has to do that day. Authorship is a merciless business!”
― 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love
― 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love
“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”
― A Long Way from Chicago
― A Long Way from Chicago
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