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
Author: Susan Uhlig
Reading and writing like everything else, improve with practice.
Margaret Atwood
Reading and writing like everything
Let the secrets and the silence have their weight. Let them pull on the characters, on the plot, on everything, with their own gravity, and watch what happens.
Catherine Chung
Let the secrets and silence
Revision is not making something wrong into something right. It’s about clarifying.
Laurie Halse Anderson
Revision is not making something
Verbs are the most important of all your tools. They push the sentence forward and give it momentum. Active verbs push hard; passive verbs tug fitfully.
William Zinsser