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Avoid phrases like "I heard" and "I saw". It separates the reader from the sensations. Example:I could hear ...

If action is used as a dialogue tag, the dialogue should end in a period, and the action should be capitalized. Example: “This i...

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” — ...

A baby is born with a need to love and never outgrows it-Frank A. Clark

Besides writing  The Canterbury Tales , Geoffrey Chaucer  worked as a civil servant, a diplomat, a courtier, and a scrap metal collector....

I'm reading "The Nest" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney.  I didn't start getting into it until I plopped the cursor to the m...

“In writing,use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“Learn as much by writing as by reading.” —  Lord Acton

Earnest Hemingway and Phillip Roth  often wrote while standing.

In accordance with his wishes, Hunter S.Thompson's ashes were fired from a cannon.

Remembrance: A Mediator Novel   Paperback   – February 2, 2016 by   Meg Cabot     (Author) So, Paul Slater is back, again, and trying to...

Stephen King got the inspiration for his novel Pet Sematary  when his daughter's pet cat was hit by a truck.

“Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might n...

“Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might n...

A classic does not necessarily teach us anything we did not know before.-Italo Calvino

  A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.-Italo Calvino

"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1.What am I trying to sa...

Fyodor Dostoevsky  spent four years in a Siberian penal camp for publishing anti-government pamphlets.

Anton Chekhov  wanted to call his first volume of stories “Buy This Book or I'll Smash Your Face In.”

“Don't wait for inspiration; go after it with a club.” —  Jack London