A good article about someone trying to trademark a common word.
Why Every Author—and Reader—Should Care about #Cockygate – Jami Gold
Would-be writer, beware.
The things that serve us
Things serve you, become part of your life, and then because they are things and impermanent, the day comes when you have to find a new way of dealing with the world through the things that take their place.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater – How I Write
i’ve mentioned before how much I admire Maggie Stiefvater’s writing. She is generous about sharing her experience, and you can find many of her posts at:
The Royal Wedding
Anyone speaking longingly about “fairytale weddings” probably hasn’t read many fairytales.
The secret locked within
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.
~ Stephen King
How important is talent to writing?
How much of writing success is talent, and how much comes from experience, persistence, hard work?
https://themillions.com/2014/11/magical-thinking-talent-and-the-cult-of-craft.html
How to make great pizza dough
This hits all the tips I would tell you on how to make great pizza dough.
The horrors of “As”
“If you want a study of how to avoid those other prose crutches — though, but, however, yet, and even, too, just — read him line by line, then search those words in your own story files, then maybe ask yourself why you know his name, and nobody knows yours.”
Strangeness
Strangeness is the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked.
~ John Gardner, On Becoming a Novelist