If you are brave enough to write about your pain, you can begin to heal and enrich your reader’s world.
Jaquelyn Mitchard
Author: Susan Uhlig
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Lorrie Moore
A short story is
Character agency is, to me, a demonstration of the character’s ability to make decisions and affect the story. This character has motivations all her own. She is active more than she is reactive. She pushes on the plot more than the plot pushes on her. Even better, the plot exists as a direct result of the characters actions.
Chuck Wendig
Character agency is to me
Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.
Robin Hobb
Keep writing keep faith in
Never feel that you’re ‘married’ to an idea, even if it was the original idea that sparked the story. It might have to go, like a scaffolding that comes down after a mural is painted.
Laini Taylor