Erika Hazel

“Any character who goes after a desire and is impeded is forced to struggle (otherwise the story is over.) And that struggle makes him change. So the ultimate goal of the dramatic code, and of the storyteller, is to present a change in a character or to illustrate why that change did not occur.”
― John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

“There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground. Where it will likely require medical attention.”
― Chris Baty

“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
― Naomi Klein

“The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.”
― Chris Baty, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days