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“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.” Carmen Maria Machado

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.” Edith Sitwell

Just like it's not healthy to think overly negative thoughts, exaggeratedly positive thoughts can be equally detrimental. If you overestimate how much of a positive impact a particular change will have on your life, you may end up feeling disappointed when reality doesn't live up to your...

There is just one rule: Keep your readers reading." Paula Munier

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things. Dick Van Dyke

[Detractors] ...are just wrong, and that's ok. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments. Lisa Kudrow

Hey everybody! I'm new in town, so here's a little bit of my writing journey so far. I had my first self-publication in August of 2021, a fantasy adventure story akin to the 'Inheritance Cycle' series by Christopher Paolini called 'Origins: the Compound.' Since then, I have written short...

Crying is just the way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is. Japanese saying.

I just did a workshop put on by Jane Friedman, taught by Jessica Strawser on synopsis. In it, Jessica said that one of the reasons a lot of agents don't like prologues is because they’ve read the query and the synopsis, which prompts them to read the pages. Then when they read the opening, it's...