On Writing

The best advice for a new writer – WRITE!! You never know what stories you have in you until you let them out!! Also, READ books in your genre, similar to what you want to write. And LEARN all you can about writing, contests, publishing. The internet is a great source, but never take only one person’s word for it. Here is some great advice from the masters…

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you – Maya Angelou

I write to discover what I know – Flannery O’Connor

The scariest moment is always just before you start – Stephen King

Real courage is when you…begin anyway and see it through no matter what – Harper Lee

You can make anything by writing – C. S. Lewis

And by the way, everything in life is writable about – Sylvia Plath

Write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know – Ernest Hemingway

A word after a word after a word is power – Margaret Atwood

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple – Jack Kerouac

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story – Frank Herbert