Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.
The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.
You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.
When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.
The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.