A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present