The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media. . . it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.
In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God is Al Hadi, the Guide. But at the same time, God has provided within the Islamic revelation the possibility of spiritual guidance through human beings, because then everyone can have direct access to God.
Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.