Critique helps you see your work with new eyes and shape it into what you always wanted it to be, only you weren’t able to get it there on your own. People say that writing is an isolated activity, but good writing requires company. Company that you ultimately love and cherish and value, and this … Continue reading
I was trying to write the wrong book, for the wrong reasons. My goal was to write the best book ever, so that my mother would be proud. So that teachers who made me feel quite small and thick would see that I was smart. So that friends, colleagues, strangers would applaud. So that I … Continue reading
The act of balancing one’s work writing with one’s personal writing is insanely tough, because the former has to naturally come first, since people are paying you for it. And then when it’s time to come home and do the writing one has to do, just to get it out there, it’s so tough. There … Continue reading
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. Joan Didion on keeping a notebook
Scientifically accurate storytelling is hard. Few creative individuals take the time to work out the details. You see, science fiction that operates in the universe we actually live in not only feels true, it also feels honest… Knowledge of and use of science reveals amazing revelations, curiosities, and unexpected truths that can enrich and guide … Continue reading
Twelve quotes from authors to remember when starting your first book
When working on your first book, you’re faced with an extremely daunting task. Regardless of whatever training or practice you’ve had in the past, it’s still your first novel. At times it will be a highly enjoyable venture, but much of it will be excruciating. There are moments where you might want to throw in … Continue reading Twelve quotes from authors to remember when starting your first book
“Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.” ― Don Roff Also known as ‘Just Get it Done’
When you sit down to do the thing you want to do (for example, write if you want to be a writer), one of the first things that might happen is that you feel like vomiting or like the insides of you are trying to escape in every possible direction… I wish I could say … Continue reading
I started writing, that’s what changed everything. Judd Apatow…said to me ‘listen Jace, I’m going to be really honest with you. I know that you want to be a leading man…you’re like a really weird dude and the only way you’re going to make it is if you write your own material, cause they can’t … Continue reading