Stop telling yourself you’re not qualified, not worthy, or not experienced enough. Growth happens when you start doing things you’re not qualified to do. - Steven Bartlett The post S50E9 – Your Unique Journey: This or That? appeared first on Writing Roots.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. - Lemony Snicket The post S50 Bonus – Publishing on Kickstarter with Oriana Leckert appeared first on Writing Roots.

It’s a waste of time to tell trailblazers, dreamers, creatives that they’re going the wrong way. We know. That’s the point. We don’t want to go where the current path leads. - Thema Bryant The post S50E8 – Your Unique Journey: The Path appeared first on Writing Roots.

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut The post S50E7 – Making the Choice to Monetize appeared first on Writing Roots.

The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear, then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist. - Steven Pressfield The post S50E6 – Arming Yourself with Writing Tools appeared first on Writing Roots.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The post S50E5 – Get Yourself a Writing Community appeared first on Writing Roots.

My advice for beginning writers is… learn not to take advice. Look to yourself. Make yourself worthy of trust. - William H Gass The post S50E4 – Take Advice With a Grain of Salt appeared first on Writing Roots.

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. - Jodi Picoult The post S50E3 – Write Now, Edit Later appeared first on Writing Roots.

The world needs your story in order to be complete. - Anne Jackson The post S50E2 – Don’t Give Up appeared first on Writing Roots.

The book that will most change your life is the book you write. - Seth Godin The post S50E1 – Addressing Common Excuses appeared first on Writing Roots.

Thank you for listening to another year of Writing Roots! The post S49 Bonus – Writing Roots Blooper Reel appeared first on Writing Roots.

​For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones. - Sefi Atta The post S49E8 – What Do I Do If All I’m Writing is Dialogue? appeared first on Writing Roots.

Engaging in the literary world and discovering what books are out there is always beneficial. Consider the comp hunt both a rite of passage and a learning opportunity—and may the odds be ever in your favor. - Star Wuerdemann The post S49E7 – How Do I Determine Comp Titles for My Book? appeared first on Writing Roots.

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story. - Rosemary Clement-Moore The post S49E6 – If I Want to Be a Career Author, Should I Stick to One Genre? appeared first on Writing Roots.

In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don’t ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story. - Ben Bova The post S49E5 – Why Does My Writing Seem Basic Even When I Have a Big Vocabulary? appeared first on Writing Roots.

Since childhood, I've been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing. - Guillermo del Toro The post S49E4 – What is the Difference Between a Complete Monster and a Regular One? appeared first on Writing Roots.

World-building can be as complicated or as simple as your story needs it to be. - Moriah Richard The post S49E3 – How Do I Build a Military for a Spec Fic Story? appeared first on Writing Roots.

With third-person limited, we want to ensure that the character’s beliefs are reflected in the narrator’s description of things. Not by necessarily telling us what the character thinks, but by coloring in their fictional world - setting, people, events - with the character’s perspective, informing the words selected. - Peter Mountford The post S49E2 – Is Having Multiple POVs the Same as Head Hopping? appeared first on Writing Roots.

In teaching writing, I’m learning new things about writing. - David B Coe The post S49E1 – Why Do You Have a Podcast? appeared first on Writing Roots.

I don’t try and write strong female characters or strong male characters. I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female. - JJ Abrams The post S48E9 – How to Identify Sexism appeared first on Writing Roots.