If You Do Not Love What You

The Reader Wants To See Something Happen Between Pages One And Four Hundred, And Nothing Happens If The Characters Don't Change.

Fiction Writing Is A Twenty-four-hou R-a-day Occupation. You Never Leave Your Work Behind. It Is Always With You, And To Some Extent, You Are Always Thinking About It. You Don't Take Your Work Home; Your Work Never Leaves Home. It Lives Inside You. It Resides And Grows And Comes Alive In Your Mind.

If You Do Not Hear Music In Your Words, You Have Put Too Much Thought Into Your Writing And Not Enough Heart.

If You Are Ever Completely Satisfied With Something You Have Written, You Are Setting Your Sights Too Low. But If You Can't Let Go Of Your Material Even After You Have Done The Best That You Can With It, You Are Setting Your Sights Too High.

A Cat Never Discusses His Business With Humans, Not Even Princesses. A Cat Never Explains And Never Apologizes. A Cat Never Alibis. You Must Accept A Cat As It Is And For What It Is And Not Expect More Than The Pleasure Of Its Company.