We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.
I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go.
Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction
Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.
But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.
Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.
Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.
Pay attention to the sound of words.
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.
Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.
