“Backstory is like a flavour you cant quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know its there and it enhances the flavour, but its intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!”

“Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. Its that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where sus...”

“Suspense doesnt always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.”

“Backstory is like a flavour you can’t quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it’s there and it enhances the flavour, but it’s intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!”

“Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.”

“Backstory is like a flavour you cant quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know its there and it enhances the flavour, but its intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!”

“It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three.”

“Thundering hooves beat the frozen ground, faster and faster as the rider whipped the horse. Snow and mud lay thick on the earth, and rogue snowflakes drifted through the night sky.Celaena ranswifte...”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”

“Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow,...”

“Writing doesnt get any easier with time or talent. If writing is easy for you, youre probably still learning the craft. You havent perfected your style or landed upon your voice. You havent learned...”

“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”