The Company Later Went Broke, And Of

Four Rehabs Meant A Fifth Was Somewhere Down The Road.

An Outline Is Crucial. It Saves So Much Time. When You Write Suspense, You Have To Know Where You're Going Because You Have To Drop Little Hints Along The Way. With The Outline, I Always Know Where The Story Is Going. So Before I Ever Write, I Prepare An Outline Of 40 Or 50 Pages.

Jesus Preached More And Taught More About Helping The Poor And The Sick And The Hungry Than He Did About Heaven And Hell. Shouldn't That Tell Us Something?

The Two Mistakes That Come To Mind Are People Who Introduce A Flood Of Characters In The First Few Pages. Where The Reader Has To Stop And Get Out A Flow Chart And Has To Figure Out Who Is Who. And You Just Can't Do That - Introduce The First Four Generations Of A Character's Family In The First Chapter. You Can Introduce Four Or Five Characters At The Most In The First Chapter. Another Mistake Is To Use Big Words That Are Not Normally Used In Conversation To Try To Impress Folks With Your Vocabulary.

Please Give Me Fifty More Years Of Work And Fun, Then An Instant Death When I'm Sleeping.