Perservere...

 

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perserverance.

~ Samuel Johnson ~

Motivational Monday

The adjective is the enemy of the noun - Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

Motivational Monday

Inside every fat book is a thin book trying to get out - Unknown

Motivational Monday

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head  ~ John Updike

Motivational Monday

If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop.  If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness ~ Carrie Latet

Motivational Monday

When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.
~ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Motivational Monday

If the sex scene doesn't make you want to do it - whatever it is they're doing - it hasn't been written right - Sloan Wilson

Motivational Monday

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time. - W. D. Wetherell

Motivational Monday

We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. 

~Edith Lovejoy Pierce~

Motivational Monday

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions - John Updike

Motivational Monday

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. 

~ Eugene Ionesco ~

Motivational Monday

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers - Aldous Huxley

Motivational Monday

Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns out to be the revelation that the mad professor's anti-gravity device actually works, you must go back and silently delete all those flying cars buzzing around the city on page one. If you want to reveal something, you need to hide it properly first - Colin Greenland

Motivational Monday

Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax - Colin Greenland

Motivational Monday

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it  -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Motivational Monday

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. ~ Henry Fielding ~

Motivational Monday

The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible - Edna Ferber

Motivational Monday

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

~ Raymond Feist ~

Motivational Monday

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance--that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be--curiosity--to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.

~ William Faulkner ~

Motivational Monday

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy - Arthur Evans