Rick Killian
Lessons from a ghost . . .Read moreFinish the thing before you start revising.
If you’re working on chapter three and you discover you have to go back
and plant the butler in chapter one,
scribble a note to yourself and keep working on chapter three.
Otherwise you run the risk of having twenty versions of chapter one—
and nothing else.—Marta Randall
Read moreEveryone is unique. Find out what you have to say that no one else can say;
then perfect the way to say it. That’s all any writer has to sell.
Anybody who can do it can sell anything they write.—James Gunn
Read moreEdit thyself.
(Learn the big difference between what’s interesting to you
and what’s interesting—period.)—Larry Strawther
Read moreExcept as we venture to create,
we cannot project ourselves
beyond ourselves to serve and lead.—Robert K. Greenleaf
Read moreMy wife took a look at the first version of something I was writing not long ago and said,
“Dammit, man, that’s high school stuff.”
I have to tell her to wait until the seventh draft, it’ll work out all right.
I don’t know why that should be so, that the first or second draft of everything
I write reads that way.—James Thurber
Read moreEverything that can be said can be said clearly.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Read moreWords are like kisses—
they can express everything or
nothing.—Liz Glista
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