“I write because I have an idea I want to get out….Writing it feels better, and if what I write influences anyone, that’s unexpected and great.” Michele Weldon

Erle Stanley Gardner on writing

  I think the point of every sentence, every detail, factual or imagined, and every line of dialogue is to illuminate character and advance the story. Research has been, for me, a reassuring and intriguing line of luminarias. ~ Amy Bloom  

from my former blog The Writing Life Too. If you’d like to look through the archives you’ll find it here.  

  Carry a writer’s notebook. Always. A writer’s notebook trains you to be a relentless observer. Using the notebook forces you to capture the endless ideas, phrases and stories that pop into our heads but are lost unless we jot them down immediately. So many of our ideas are lost unless we note them as […]

“Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don’t reject them, let them come through when they’re ready, don’t think you can plan it all out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again […]