Beginnings and endings remain with the reader long after the story is gone. They are powerful, emotive signs cut into the storytelling trees. Pay attention to them. Work hard on them. Ignore them at your peril.
Jane Yolen
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Ideas are the cheapest part of writing. They are free! The hard part is what you do with the ideas you’ve gathered.
Ideas are the cheapest part
I want my own writing to surprise me, the way someone else’s book does.
I want my own
A writer has many successes…selling the piece is only an exclamation point, a spot of punctuation.