Our strongest defenses are built around our greatest weaknesses. As a writer, you will only get better by addressing the weakest parts of your writing. We all tend to want to focus on our strengths, but a book is only…
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Address the Weakest Parts of Your Writing
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Don’t Wait for Inspiration
Don’t wait for others to inspire you. Don’t wait for inspiration at all…there’s no better reason to tell your story than a simple love of words. ~ Cara Lopez Lee
The World is Made of…
The world is made of stories, not of atoms. ~ Muriel Rukeyser
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Surrendering to the Magic
I’ve found that the magic of storytelling is in surrendering, not to anyone else’s notions, but to the words in my head. I believe this: my subconscious knows better than I how to tell a story… Sometimes the best writing…
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We Write Our Own Truth
There is no formula and there is no right answer. That is the difficulty and the beauty of being a writer. We write to share our own version of the right answer. Our own unprovable truth. In writing (as author)…
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Save Your World: Keep Reading
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~ Ray Bradbury
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Creativity’s Enemy
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
The Write Attitude: Ray Bradbury
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~ Ray Bradbury
A Story Plot is a Net
To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series – the plot, as we call it – is only really a net whereby to catch something else. ~ C.S.…
Learn to Write One Brick at a Time
Most writing is not a special gift or talent. Writing is a skill that can be taught. It can be likened to bricklaying; you learn it one brick at a time, and you get better the more bricks you lay.…
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