As writers, we often look at the imperfections of life as our inspiration. I love that. After all, what in life is really perfect? Besides that, it isn’t the perfect characters that are the most interesting, it’s the flawed ones. The ones that really need to get over it, or get on with it, or [...]

Many times writers get caught up in having “perfect” moments to write. This is especially true of aspiring novelists.

We writers are such dreamers, aren’t we? We have to be. We have to come up with new and different ideas, and more importantly, make an effort to put that dream to paper so others can read it.

While many of the people that visit this blog are writers, a good number are also readers. I firmly believe that in order to be a good writer, you have to have an interest in reading.

Here’s a great quote that applies to the writing life.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin

Here’s a quote that definitely applies to writers:

Here is a perfect quote for writers today:

This is a humorous quote from an awesome writer: I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard So true, and yet… so difficult to do. (This is where having a great editor is really worth it.) Image: sxc.hu.

Writers are an interesting lot, simply because they are all so very different.