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• Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.
• You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk…
• All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
• The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.
• It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as…
• Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters…
• To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.
• For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.
• It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed,…
• Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and…

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