You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your story and/or talent.