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Read This on Days You Want to Quit
Some days, if not most of them, writing is HARD. It hurts. Your brain screams, your fingers feel numb, and the story on the page reads like anything but the NYT best-selling novel you want it to be.
On those days it’s easy to believe you made a bad choice and, perhaps, you weren’t meant to be a writer.
To combat the lies your mental gremlins wants you to believe, I’ve compiled a list of quotes from various writing conferences that inspired me to keep moving forward.
Looking beyond the surface
Not all characters end up as the person they started out to be. I suppose the same could be said of real people too. In the case of Fitz, who you’ll meet in my debut novel, Soul Reaper (more on that later), he started out as an older, surly cop who'd lost his love for...
When you already feel behind…
A few nights ago I had an interesting experience that shifted my world. Weird, because it was so random, so mundane. A kleenex fell out of the car. That's it. Okay, that isn't all of it. The kleenex fell out and, before I could snatch it, blew away. Now I'm not one to...
What will your story be?
I was eight when I decided I would have to have a scholarship to go to college. I think I was born with the desire for higher education, but 2nd grade was when I realized Mom and Dad wouldn’t be paying for it. Don’t ask. I probably knew too much as a child....
Every story has a moment…
A subtle, almost imperceptible moment—where the course of the main character’s (MC) life changes forever (whether or not she knows it). In my novel, it’s the moment when Heath—yep... the unnamed victim in the opening chapter has a name—decides to take a shortcut...
Choose what you want most
It was a box. A plain one. Designed to hold paper and yet it contained everything I’d worked on for the previous two years--Chakra launches, workshops, course developments, some successes and all my failures. Everything broken down into one, tiny box that shouldn't...
“You are designed for success.”
-Debbie Burns
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