Elisa Doucette

“As far as I can see, this is a problem with living in the twenty-first century. Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered. No one I knew in the 1600s wanted to find their inner billionaire. They just wanted to live to see adolescence and avoid body lice.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Remember that the first rule when editing a book is to DO NO HARM.”
― Shawn Coyne, The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know

“Stories drag you through the mud of multiple emotions and through the thorn-tangle of thinky thoughts.”
― Chuck Wendig, Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative

“It’s not how we got here,” she said as she went. “Or even that we are here. It’s where we go from here.” A”
― Julie Lawson Timmer, Mrs. Saint and the Defectives