Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer today . . .and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success. ~ Jeff Abbott
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ How Do You End Each Chapter?
“I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.” ~ Nelson DeMille
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What is Interesting to You?
“What’s more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That’s what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it’s something we should be uncomfortable about.” ~ George Pelecanos
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What Makes Your Characters Special?
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character’s need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Put Your Imagination to Work for You
“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” ~ John Green
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Have an Idea for a Real Story?
“I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it’s already been covered by the media, and if it’s not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?”
~ Ed McBain
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing as Storytelling
“When I write I pretend I’m telling a story to someone in the room and I don’t want them to get up until I’m finished.” ~ James Patterson
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Are You a Storyteller or a Writer?
“Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.” ~ Tom Clancy
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ When Do You Write Best?
“I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.”
~ Zane Grey
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Everything You Need is Within
“A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
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