"Novels aren’t written by muses who come down through the ceiling and shoot magic through your..."

“Novels aren’t written by muses who come down through the ceiling and shoot magic through your fingers and out onto your laptop’s keyboard. Before NaNoWriMo, some teensy part of me still believed that because writing is a creative act, it should feel easy. But fairies don’t write novels. They’re written with one simple equation:

 

Time + Work = Novel”

- Stephanie Perkins, on the rewards of not giving up on your story.