Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.