Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

by Chuck Palahniuk

Make the reader believe you. Make the incredible seem inevitable.

establish emotional authority by depicting an imperfect character making a mistake.

never resolve an issue until you introduce a bigger one.

Anytime you deny a possibility you create it at the same time. Such statements introduce the threat they appear to be denying.

don’t overthink your creative process.

If you’re a worrier, writing can make your nervous anxiety into an asset.

Writing is nothing if not problem solving.