DO YOUR RESEARCH … make sure your facts are true, even if you are not writing something historical.
Quotes
Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
Remember Plot is no more
The secret to unpredictable endings … is to allow … your protagonist … the possibility of failure.
The secret to unpredictable endings
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you’re writing, and aren’t writing particularly well.
There was a moment when
So much of writing is ‘getting out of your own way.’ Silencing the inner critic, playing the ‘what if’ game with the story until fear of failure finally feels unnatural.