Learn To Write By Writing

Reading Is A Private Act, Private Even From The Person Who Wrote The Book. Once The Novel Is Out There, The Author Is Beside The Point. The Reader And The Book Have Their Own Relationship Now, And Should Be Left Alone To Work Things Out For Themselves.

He Used To Say We All Had A Compass Inside Of Us And What We Needed To Do Was To Find It And To Follow It.

I Made A Startling Discovery. Time Spent Writing = Output Of Work. Amazing.

Do You Want To Do This Thing? Sit Down And Do It. Are You Not Writing? Keep Sitting There. Does It Not Feel Right? Keep Sitting There. Think Of Yourself As A Monk Walking The Path To Enlightenment. Think Of Yourself As A High School Senior Wanting To Be A Neurosurgeon. Is It Possible? Yes. Is There Some Shortcut? Not One I've Found. Writing Is A Miserable, Awful Business. Stay With It. It Is Better Than Anything In The World.

I Really Do Think That Our Subconscious Gets Corrupted With Fear, And Fear Is How News Media - All Media - Makes Us [watch] Long Enough To Get To The Tide Commercial. That's All It's About. Generating Fear So That We Can Buy The Proper Laundry Detergent.