It's written in real time, dramatizing every instant of every breath of eight hours of a nightmare in the old hotel. No cuts, no summaries, no leaps forward, as in 'five minutes later, he reached the second floor.' Every step is accounted for. I smiled when I learned that the Brilliance unabridged audio lasts eight hours, [which is just] as long as the story would take to occur in life.
David Morrell
life time real story breath forward written nightmare learned
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.
adventure first-lines military
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.
writing inspirational
Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them
literature writing
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.
voice writer write yourself
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