Don’t feel shy about dusting off old and once-rejected ideas, half-written manuscripts, or writing snippets that didn’t work the first time.
Alli Brydon
Quotes
Don’t judge it. Just write it. Don’t judge it. It’s not for you to judge it.
Philip Roth
Don’t judge it-Just write
If you are brave enough to write about your pain, you can begin to heal and enrich your reader’s world.
Jaquelyn Mitchard
If you are brave enough
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