"Whether it’s medication or meditation, as your needs demand, get the support you need."

Why is the book set somewhere else? Have an answer for that and your journey has begun.

"The only way I would know was to ask the very people I wanted to base my novel on."

"Far from helping me to enrich my novel, research was stopping me from writing a good one."

Do you actually know your characters, or are they yet to emerge?

There are benefits to be found in removing the notion that writing requires writing space, and in writing fiction around ongoing human life.

Writers dig alone time. It’s our bread and butter. It gives us time to write, to think, to observe, to read…to walk around in our pants.

'Writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all.' - Charles Bukowski.

"Tell your new idea you appreciate it but explain firmly and kindly that you are busy right now and will get to it when you are done wi

'The start of your writer’s journey is not the time for limitations; it’s the time for possibility.'