When you are rooting for a character to die for being so inexplicably hostile and inept, the writing has failed.
– Jamahl Epsicokhan
Tag: failure
Quotable 261
One of the surest ways to establish dramatic tension is to have characters in bad situations who are trying intelligently to solve their problems, failing, and falling into worse situations.
– Cory Doctorow
Quotable 236
Work inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you’re interested, keep working. If you’re bored, keep working.
– Michael Crichton
haiku 335
club meeting –
some cats
can’t be herded
#quikfic 87
I stumbled in the fog with only my heart to guide me home to Kathy. I ended up on Lorna’s porch. And on her sofa. And in her bed.
Quotable 187
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
– Vaclav Havel
Pen to Paper: The Long View
This is only a day late for Halloween. It’s the story of one of the most popular fictional monsters: Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The writer tells the story well and there’s not much for me to say, except this: Write as well as you can. Create the best characters you can. Because even though your contemporaries might think your work is a pain in the neck, later generations may really sink their teeth into it. Give them that chance.