The best hook or idea in the world won’t sway me if the sentences and the storytelling don’t inspire. — Megan Lynch, senior editor at

A writer may write a book in solitude, but making a book and helping it find its market is very much a group effort. —

Even the best plot won’t hold a reader’s interest if the writer lacks the ability to create good dialogue. — Christy Distler Aspiring writers often

You know how to tell a story after you’ve told it a dozen times. — Frank Ball Every writer knows the moment when something “clicks.”

Real publishing support makes a significant investment in your work. A scam asks you to invest in their promise. — Frank Ball Every aspiring writer

Writing for an Audience of One The key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not the way it

The extensive utilization of multisyllabic terminology and obfuscatory phraseology, coupled with an overabundance of manufactured verbiage, runs counter to the goals and purposes of an

Beyond fantasies and wishful thinking, let writers publish stories that let readers experience truth. — Jeremiah 23:28 Scripture for Writers Writers live in a world

Effort must rise to the level of the dream, or the dream will fall to the level of the effort. — Frank Ball Every writer

Ninety-nine percent of what looks like listening in the world is not genuine listening. It’s just waiting at a stoplight with the mind’s engine running

The magic of story is that it allows us to vicariously experience the emotion of the tale and feel it so deeply that it helps

Slow and steady wins the race. — Aesop (550 BC), The Hare and the Tortoise Patience is difficult for anyone, but for writers, it can