The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.
Failure. Never before has a thing gotten such a bad rap as failure. And why wouldn't it? It's . In a video game, failure means to , to drop into a pit of lava while the princess remains unsaved (oh, sexist video games, when will the lady plumber save...
Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, perhaps, since young adults tend to flick cigarettes in...
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as sa...
Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.
Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story
Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who survives? Or the kind who gets asphyxiat...
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window.
Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window. Suave. Sultry. I'm neither of those things
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
