The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.