Bill: When I started to follow people, specific people, when I selected a person to follow, that’s when the trouble started. -Following, 1998. WRITING The Innovative, Intuitive Way to Organize Your Novel’s Scenes | Live Write Thrive How to Write a Bestseller: 747 No. 1 Novels | Now Novel Grip-Lit: Five Elements Your Story Must Include If You’re Writing… View Post
Elle: After we’ve seen so many copies of something over so many years, we’re not all experts who can stand before an original and understand it. It takes our breath away. Therefore, without the existence of copies, we wouldn’t understand originals. – Certified Copy, 2010. WRITING 5 Ways to Create Strong Internal Conflict | Live Write Thrive The Write Stuff:… View Post
Dave Harken: Listen to me, you stupid little runt. I OWN YOU. You’re my BITCH! So don’t walk around here thinking you have free will because you DON’T. I can break you anytime I want! – Horrible Bosses, 2011 Bad bosses don’t just exist in the movies. While we are laughing at some outrageous scenes in the movie, we… View Post
Forrester: No thinking – that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is… to write, not to think! – Finding Forrester, 2000 WRITING Want to Find the REAL Story? Ignore Your Instincts | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® How Do You Know When You Have A Good Story… View Post
Ted: A fucking good poem is a weapon. It’s… and not like a “pop”, it’s a bomb. A bloody big bomb! Sylvia: That’s why they make children learn them in school. They don’t want them messing about with them on their own. I mean, just imagine if a sonnet went off accidentally. Boom. -Sylvia, 2003. WRITING Finding Your Voice… View Post
–Remember me, 2010. We all have a purpose (a calling) in life. We come here to do something that no one else will. Perhaps you haven’t found it yet. Perhaps you know, but you pretend you don’t. You play it safe. Perhaps it scares the hell out of you, so you ignore it. Or every time that thing crosses… View Post
-The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, 2007. WRITING Malpractice: Getting Medical Facts Right in Fiction | Kristen Lamb All You Need to Know about Story Structure (in 5 Minutes) | WTD Making Characters Stuck in the Background Pop Out | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® Six Simple Reasons Our Story Sucks & How to Fix It | Kristen Lamb Plot Twist Ideas: 7 Examples… View Post
