“Get the struc­ture wrong and you blow up shortly after take­off. Get it right and you save your­self an aborted man­u­script and months and months of wasted writ­ing. Make your struc­ture orig­i­nal and you may end up with a novel that looks unlike any other.” — David Mitchell

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“Once you begin writ­ing, try to con­tinue to write. Avoid any delays in your writ­ing sched­ule. That doesn’t mean you must write con­tin­u­ously, but you should strive to write consistently. Putting off the writ­ing of your book for too long a period can destroy your enthu­si­asm. It’s like when you vow to call a friend. You […]

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“The New Author Plat­form requires a focus on devel­op­ing an unob­structed back and forth between authors and their read­ers, with the authors — not the pub­lish­ers — con­trol­ling the flow. Now it’s the author, not a pub­li­cist, who inspires read­ers to buy the book.” — Alan Rinzler

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“It takes most peo­ple a few tries to write a viable and saleable novel. Like it or not, this is true for the over­whelm­ing major­ity of writ­ers.” — Rachelle Gardner

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“Cre­ativ­ity should never be aim­less. We should always start out with the inten­tion of fin­ish­ing what we set out to do.” — Iain Broome

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In a Face­book mes­sage this week, a friend asked, “Do you buy that there are only two types of fic­tion sto­ries: a stranger comes to town and a hero goes on a jour­ney?” I wrote back, “Yes and no. But it will take me longer to explain.” This is my expla­na­tion. First of all, any […]

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I don’t know who you are. I can look at my Google Ana­lyt­ics to get a rough under­stand­ing of where you are, where you came from, and how long you stayed on Fluid Imag­i­na­tion, but who you are — your moti­va­tion for com­ing here and the goals you hope to achieve — these I can only […]

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