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“To infuse a novel with a significance that speaks to many requires, paradoxically, that you ignore what the public wants and focus instead on what matters to you.”
― Writing 21st Century Fiction: High Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling
― Writing 21st Century Fiction: High Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling
“Formal education will earn you a living. Self-education will earn you a fortune.” Jim Rohn”
― Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it!
― Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it!
“Why is it important to look at fiction writing through the lens of emotional experience? Because that’s the way readers read. They don’t so much read as respond. They do not automatically adopt your outlook and outrage. They formulate their own. You are not the author of what readers feel, just the provocateur of those feelings. You may curate your characters’ experiences and put them on display, but the exhibit’s meaning is different in thousands of ways for thousands of different museum visitors, your readers. Not”
― The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
― The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
“The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.”
― The Romantic Manifesto
― The Romantic Manifesto
“Don't let politeness interfere with truth”
― Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy
― Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy
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