Make your characters work as much as possible for their achievements, and you’ll have the reader cheering for their victories or weeping at their defeats.
Nathan Bransford
Quotes
Practice makes progress (NOT PERFECT). In my own work, once I moved away from striving to make a project perfect, I became much happier with what I was creating.
Mike Boldt
Practice makes progress
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners’ names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
Mignon McLaughlin
An old racetrack joke
Some of my non-writer friends think I’m nuts for writing at all. Why would I do something so difficult when I don’t have to? Thing is, it makes me nuts not to write.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Some of my friends
Deciding where to start is the enemy of starting.
Laurie Halse Anderson