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Write Good or Die
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“Readers respond to authenticity, originality and excitement, even if it’s not packaged in a way they expect.”
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“The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed”
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“Settle in your mind what you want, what your goal is with your writing, and then take steps to reach that goal.”
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“Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am.”
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“If you can avoid the grammatical bog of trying to wow English professors with your sentences, then you’re well on your way to getting the reader to turn one page and then the next.”
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“Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am. I worked a full-time regular job while I wrote my first novels, scraping out an hour here or there in evenings and weekends. That’s how I’ve become a successful author.”
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“good writing inspires me to write and bad writing provokes me to write.”
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“Pick up any popular hack novel, and I need not mention any names, because there are probably several dozen in your immediate vicinity. Open it and read the first page. By the third paragraph, something is happening. Nine times out of ten, it is something important, life and death, love or loss, something that makes you want to know more. Something that makes you—GOTCHA—turn the page. As writers, we are often tempted to impress other writers with our stylistic genius. Believe me, I’m still enough of an average reader to know that we don’t care about your genius. We want a story, we want it fast, and we want it to teach us something about being human. We don’t care what you mean to New York. All we care about is what your story means to us. The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed. We want a hack, and if you deliver the goods, we’ll keep coming back to gather around your campfire again and again.”
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“Second General Rule of Thumb on Self Promotion Make your next book a better book.”
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“writers who want to survive in 2015 will need to make money off of free books, or they will soon quit writing.”
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“Ly” adverbs slow down the sentence and often foil the writer’s intent.”
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“the idea of being a “published” author is an antiquated and virtually meaningless one.”
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“sometimes we love what we wrote, critics hate it. Sometimes we hate what we wrote, critics love it.”
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“They may not spell brilliantly, they may not have the most amazing command of the English language. But they are willing to learn, and they read like crazy. They write, because they have loved so much to read.”
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“Anyone using two or more exclamation points together will not only be rejected but taken out and shot!!!”
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“Most of the humorous writers I know, me included, aren’t very funny in conversation. In fact, I’m so boring I could suck the laughs out of a hyena convention.”
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“You must be true to yourself—however, if you have a dozen editors tell you that something is a cliché, trite, or overdone, it probably is, and you need to step back and take a look at your work.”
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“Heather Graham was raising children while making the time to write what has now become 100 novels.”
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“Like it or not, people say "no" more than they say “yes.”
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“Everyone has these leaks, as the poker players call it. A leak is something that drains your income, something that has nothing to do with your work. And it’s often something you’re not willing to give up.”
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“The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.”
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