November 2011
211 posts
The first chapter of A MILLION SUNS is available online now! →
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Read it. Read it now.
October 2011
118 posts
Writing: Mastering the Balance →
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Have you found balance in your prose?
“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind…”
— Andy Andrews (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
—Lemony Snicket (via 2murgatroyd)
“In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”
—Bruce Lee, Wisdom For The Way (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It’s that easy, and that hard.”
—Neil Gaiman (via martinaboone)
Do You Really Know Your Characters? →
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If all of your characters were identical, would you be able to tell them apart? How?
