“ If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place? ”
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.
~ Jennifer Weiner
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
