Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than constructing fictitious ones. - Wittgenstein
Writing takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness. - Steven Saylor
Do you have a camera hidden in my room? I thought I was the only one that did that, and I thought it was caused by my PTSD!
Don't forget being criticized for writing something that is a fact, by someone that wouldn't know a fact if it came up, and bit them in the butt.
:nuts:That may well be true but my characters keep nagging me to come out to play until I do, and then they want to dictate the rules of the game!
Truer words have ner been spoken nor applied to page, you've only to look at politics to see the result.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any. - Orson Scott Card
Intelligent people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people. - Dear Abby
Well, it's not, strictly speaking, about writing, but I know of at least one Frank Herbert quote, from God Emperor of Dune, that applies to writing particularly well:
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night. - H.P. Lovecraft
Garamet how do yo8u think political and social allegory best handled is? Youo read any naval science books for writing trke books?
