Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an audiobook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!...

What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare (Romeo and...

Every moment is a fresh beginning. T.S. Eliot The new year has started, which means new goals, new habits to build, old habits to break...

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It...

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be...

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath I read an article about a writer whose goal was to receive 100 rejections in...

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. Helen Hanson Muse. A noun. There...

Reading a novel is a journey. A great novel can entice you into a wonderful new world filled with great characters, events and emotions....

There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and...

You don't find time to write. You make time. Nora Roberts 2020. 20 days. 20 thousand words. I do have an affiliation for numbers that...

A short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. Lorrie Moore As an emerging...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.  John Donne Throw the confetti. Ring...

I have spent the last three months plotting and planning my first novel. If you have read my past posts, you will know that my original...

One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there. (Martha...

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” Winston Churchill Are you a Plotter? A Pantser? Or Plantser? These are...

I love writing. Playing with words. Creating new characters. Telling stories. Some days it's easy. You sit down and you write. The words...