Another famous Mark Twain quote for you.
“There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There [...]

Lillian Hellman said, “If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
While I agree to some point, I disagree more. Here is where I stand on this. Do not let another writer tell you how you should write. Nor should you listen to them [...]

“Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.” - Jack Lynch
Lately, I have become obsessed with grammar and style. I believe that every writer spends the rest of their life discovering their own personal style. It doesn’t [...]

After last weeks quote, I received many emails stating that in order to be a good author it was important to be whomever your characters and writing needed you to be. While I totally agree, this quote says it best:
 ”There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too [...]

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I love to write about my daughter. She’s at that age where she says and does the funniest things. She’s seven now. Her personality is amazingly just like her mother’s and well even some of the quirks seem to be the same as well. (much to my dismay, but then my mother always said “paybacks [...]