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Don Roff quotes: Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

Don Roff quotes: Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Don Roff quotes: A writer always writes.

A writer always writes.

Don Roff quotes: Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you'll end up with less of either.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you'll end up with less of either.

Don Roff quotes: Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.

Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.

Don Roff quotes: I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.

Don Roff quotes: Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

Don Roff quotes: Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Don Roff quotes: When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

Don Roff quotes: If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Don Roff quotes: Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Don Roff quotes: Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.

Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.

Don Roff quotes: When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked.

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked.

Don Roff quotes: You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

Don Roff quotes: We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door.

We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door.

Don Roff quotes: But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don't know what they're talking about.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don't know what they're talking about.

Don Roff quotes: The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

Don Roff quotes: Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

Don Roff quotes: If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret lifewhether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours.

If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life
whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours.

Don Roff quotes: I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

Don Roff quotes: It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.

It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.

Don Roff quotes: You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Don Roff quotes: Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Don Roff quotes: Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.

Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.

Don Roff quotes: It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

Don Roff quotes: The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Don Roff quotes: A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Don Roff quotes: Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

Don Roff quotes: Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Don Roff quotes: I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do.

I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do.

Don Roff quotes: Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Don Roff quotes: If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.

If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.

Don Roff quotes: I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

Don Roff quotes: Audiences will admire your character's strength but connect with them through their weakness.

Audiences will admire your character's strength but connect with them through their weakness.

Don Roff quotes: A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

Don Roff quotes: Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don't invite either into your mind.

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don't invite either into your mind.

Don Roff quotes: Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat - chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.

Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat - chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.

Don Roff quotes: Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

Don Roff quotes: Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.

Don Roff quotes: Kindness, motherfucker, kindness.

Kindness, motherfucker, kindness.

Don Roff quotes: Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Don Roff quotes: When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Don Roff quotes: Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Don Roff quotes: Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Don Roff quotes: If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

Don Roff quotes: I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.