If anybody has ever said to you “Can I pick your brain?”
~Lisa Johnson
that really means “Can you write an ebook that I can buy?”
Tag: #ThuThought
Thursday Thought #WarrenBuffet
Invest in yourself. The one easy way to become worth 50 percent more than you are now at least is to hone your communication skills–both written and verbal. If you can’t communicate, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark-nothing happens. You can have all the brainpower in the world, but you have to be able to transmit it. And the transmission is communication.
~Warren Buffet
Thursday Thought #SharonMcMahon
The antidote to despair is action.
~Sharon McMahon
Thursday Thought #RosaParks
We must live our lives
~Rosa Parks
as a model for others.
Thursday Thought #JenniferHilt
I stopped thinking of tropes as end products and
~Jennifer Hilt
started thinking of them as raw materials that could
create characters and increase conflict.
Thursday Thought #DFHart
It’s not the size of the steps;
~D. F. Hart
it’s the fact you’re taking
them that matters.
Thursday Thought #KarenOstergren
Metaphors can bring vividness
~Karen Ostergren
to image descriptions, of course,
but like salt sprinkled over a
finished dish, they’re best used
in moderation.
Thursday Thought #ElmoreLeonard
A line of dialogue is not
~Elmore Leonard
clear enough if you need
to explain how it’s said.
Thursday Thought #AmandaPatterson
Start your novel at the end of
~Amanda Patterson
the backstory you’ve created.
Begin with a breath-taking
inciting moment.
Thursday Thought #JaniceLDick
Writing a novel is like
~Janice L. Dick
creating a king-sized quilt
in a four-by-four room.