Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.
Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.
To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.
Marathons are extraordinarily difficult, but if you've got the training under your belt, and if you can run smart, the races take care of themselves. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.
Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.
I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.