Don't Write What You Know

Fantastic essay by Bret Anthony Johnston.

Maybe we’re afraid that if we write what we don’t know, we’ll discover something truer than anything our real lives will ever yield.

A resolution of sorts

When I choose to read blogs, I'm going to read more about books and reading and less about writing and plot structure and getting an agent and the publishing industry.

More about what made me love writing to begin with, which was stories.

Nike would say just do it, but I like Andy Warhol's version better

Neil Gaiman said it best.

Welcome, 2012!

Best artistic advice

Do something. Do anything.

- by Sean Ferrell

Jane Friedman's Secret to Finding Time

How she makes time to write, blog, market, promote, travel, speak, and teach at a university.

-- From Writer Unboxed

Interview with Tana French

Mostly I love Tana French's writing (although I had big issues with the unanswered questions in In the Woods). She has a new book coming out, which I'll read as soon as it hits the shelves.

GoodReads interview with Tana French.