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The descriptive powers of the great John Houseman.

September 27, 2023September 29, 2023

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The A.I. bot says: “Get out of the chair. Go have a drink. I’ll do the writing.”

July 24, 2023September 27, 2023

I recently read an article about how A.I. was supposed to reduce the workload of those in the world of writing. Instead, literary Read More...

The U.S. editor-in-chief of TechRadar.com tries to get ChatGPT to write a screenplay.

Lance Ulanoff is prolific US editor-in-chief for TechRadar. On February 25, 2023, he published an article titled: ChatGPT showed me Read More...

“And no one can talk to a horse of course.” Wrong!

May 18, 2023May 18, 2023

Fifty-seven years after the hit show Mister Ed went off the air, and 53 years after Bamboo Harvester (Ed) died, something Read More...

The last of the three-dot journalists.

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023

On a whim last night, I did a Google search for a guy named Strange de Jim. Some older folks in the San Francisco Bay Area will know Read More...

“Unmarked graves out past Terlingua.”

April 6, 2023June 23, 2023

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Words + emotion + lies = propaganda. Meet Joseph Goebbels.

February 26, 2023March 24, 2023

“Propaganda is nothing other than the predecessor of an organization. Once there is an organization, it becomes the predecessor Read More...

What the boss does for fun. Buckle up. Yee-haw!

January 20, 2023April 22, 2023

If you’re looking for a writing-related post on this page, keep lookin’. This isn’t it. When Tesla released its Model Read More...

This is really what it’s like to be an editor.

December 30, 2022December 30, 2022

I came across this comical image while searching for a photo to illustrate our new page on editing and proofreading services. It Read More...

Another victim from Hawaii.

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022

This is a text exchange with an elderly man in Hawaii. He’s led a life of crime, apparently as a jewel thief, and wants to Read More...

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn