Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.