3rd July 2016 | for Creatives | novel writing, writing, KEEP CREATING, Chuck Wendig |
"Your primary goal is to write a fucking whopper of a book. The lion's share of your efforts should go into that which makes you a writer: your writing."
"An abandoned story at page one or page 356 has the same value as a story you never wrote in the first place."
"At the end of the day, you can't live and die on one book. We're all trying to build a portfolio."
"Most authors are [saying something big with their books]. Not all of them. But most. And I'd encourage you to be one of the ones who is."
"You've got to go, 'No, I can't come into work on the weekends—[that's] when I work on my novel.' ... People deserve those dreams, and they have to fight for them. You don't want to be at the end of your life and go, 'I met all the obligations people had for me.'"
"I spent a lot of time worrying that I wasn't being a writer in the correct way. I don't write every day—I write when I'm burning with an idea. I don't really want to write novels—I prefer stories. These are temperamental issues."
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