Set goals that you have control over–you can’t set a goal to win an award or to reach a certain level of sales. You can have a goal to write the best books you can. And try every day to move forward, even if it’s just an inch.
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual-it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. Short paragraphs put air around what you write and make it look inviting, whereas a long chunk of type can discourage a reader from even starting to read.
One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.
Writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.
The best part of editing is revisiting the story world and hanging out with the characters again.
