Quote from Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is, and will be, remembered and honored . Here is one of her quotes: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.”

Editing Quote by Mark Twain

Mark Twain said, “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out.” Often we have to cut what doesn’t serve the story and it might be our favorite line, paragraph, scene, or chapter.

Quote from Wired for Story About Conflict

Lisa Cron, on page 129 in Wired for Story, talks about obstacles to block the protagonist’s goals . She states “Obstacles mean nothing unless, beneath the surface, the seeds of that conflict are present from the outset, as they begin pushing their tender shoots through the soil in search of the sun.” I thought about […]

Margaret Atwood Quote

I visited the San Francisco Writers Conference on Twitter @SFWC and liked the retweet they posted from www.advicetowriters.com. It was a Margaret Atwood quote:  “You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.”

Wired for Story Quotes

Lisa Cron in Wired for Story has a “Story Secret” on page 103. She says, “Anything conceptual, abstract, or general must be made tangible in the protagonist’s specific struggle.” On the following page, she quotes E.B. White, “Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write […]

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