Writing and Creating Books

Stephen King: On Writing

Here are a few wonderful quotations from master storyteller Stephen King on writing and horror presented as a tip-o-graphic. Enjoy these writing quotes. If the stuff that you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work. — Stephen King Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t […]

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13 Ways to Improve Your Love Life: The Leira Chronicles

These 13 Ways to Improve Your Love Life are excerpted from an email I received from Martha Carr, co-author of The Leira Chronicles magical realism series. If you love magical realism, check out The Leira Chronicles. 13 Ways to Improve Your Love Life Read the Leira Chronicles together. Bond for life like a troll. Learn to compromise […]

Blake Bailey: 5 Writing Tips for Book Authors

Here are five key writing tips for book authors from Blake Bailey, author of Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson. Write about things that really interest you. Pick a subject that bores you and you’ll write a boring book. Blake Bailey’s Writing Tips: Write about things that really interest you. […]

Albus Dumbledore: On the Magic of Words

I’ve always prized myself on my ability to turn a phrase. Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it. — Albus Dumbledore (of the Harry Potter series) As writers, we have great power to inspire as well as to destroy. Personally, […]