Read moreI know I was writing stories when I was five.
I don’t know what I did before that . . .
just loafed, I guess.—A. N. Whitehead
Here Be Dragons
You’ve probably heard the story before. Ancient mapmakers painted in mountains, rivers, bodies of water, and all that they knew on their maps, but the information was always limited. At some point there would be lands or waters beyond which they had no idea what they...Read moreRead a lot,
write a lot
is the great commandment.—Stephen King
Interview by Mark Malatesta of TheBestsellingAuthor.com
The above is an interview I did with Mark Malatesta on his radio show/podcast available at his website: TheBestsellingAuthor.com. I know it’s a little long, but we had a blast doing it. Mark is a little more on the “get an agent/get a publisher” side...Read moreGrammar is a piano I play by ear,
since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.
All I know about grammar is its infinite power.
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence,
as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera
alters the meaning of the object photographed.—Joan Didion
Read moreThe difference between the right word
and the almost-right word is really a large matter—
’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.—Mark Twain
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