“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
— Emery Allen
Writing advice from my uni teachers:
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
“The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.”
— Isabel Allende
“You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.”
— Sue Fitzmaurice
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I’m better than you think. I’m even better than I think I am.”
— Dave Eggers
“I am a day dreamer and a night thinker.”
— Unknown
“It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.”
— Douglas Adams
“Before you ask why someone hates you, ask yourself why you even care.”
— Tiffany Alvord
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