If You Don't Think There Is Magic

You Spend So Much Time Wondering Who You Are, Don't You Think? You Flounder About, Searching For Your Identity, When Most Of The Time It Is Plain As The Nose On Your Face. You Struggle With Questions Of Purpose And Need, And Forget That The Answers Are Found Mostly Inside Yourselves.

If You Do Not Hear Music In Your Words, You Have Put Too Much Thought Into Your Writing And Not Enough Heart.

You Can Either Give In To What Youre Feeling, Just Say ‘okay, Enough Is Enough’ And Be Done With It, Or You Can Fight It.

The Reader Wants To See Something Happen Between Pages One And Four Hundred, And Nothing Happens If The Characters Don't Change.

There Is Poetry In Fiction. If You Cannot See It And Feel It When You Write, You Need To Step Back And Examine What You Are Doing Wrong. If You Have Not Figured Out How To Write A Simple Declarative Sentence And Make It Sing With That Poetry, You Are Not Yet Ready To Write An Entire Book.