It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.
From Janet Fitch
I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.
For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.
I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.
Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
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