I Cannot Imagine Life Without

If Anything In Your Life Is More Important Than Writing - Anything At All - You Should Walk Away Now While You Still Can. Forewarned Is Forearmed. For Those Who Cannot Or Will Not Walk Away, You Need Only To Remember This. Writing Is Life. Breathe Deeply Of It.

The Reader Wants To See Something Happen Between Pages One And Four Hundred, And Nothing Happens If The Characters Don't Change.

There Is Poetry In Fiction. If You Cannot See It And Feel It When You Write, You Need To Step Back And Examine What You Are Doing Wrong. If You Have Not Figured Out How To Write A Simple Declarative Sentence And Make It Sing With That Poetry, You Are Not Yet Ready To Write An Entire Book.

If I Have The Means, I Have The Responsibility To Employ Them.

I Would Also Argue That There Is A Good Chance That An Outline Will Help You Stave Off Any Onslaught Of Writer's Block. Let Me Advise You Right Up Front That I Am Not A Big Believer In Writer's Block. I Think Writer's Block Is God's Way Of Telling You One Of Two Things - That You Failed To Think Your Material Through Sufficiently Before You Started Writing, Or That You Need A Day Or Two Off With Your Family And Friends.