I’ve just staggered out of the RWA conference here in New York. The staggering part is due to exhaustion – not anything else!! Although there was a bit of that too…
So much happened this week that I’m going to take a little while to process it all in my head. But a few things have inserted themselves into my mind like a cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter night…
… Feel free to put rubbish on the screen. Write the boring bits if you want to. Just go back and fix it all later. Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
… There are only three rules 1 – read. 2 – write. 3 – don’t stop. Diana Gabaldon.
… Whenever there has been great change – from clay tablets to papyrus to paper and the printing press and now to digital, all that has ever happened is that the industry and the market and the audience has gotten bigger. Steve Berry.
… Never forget that writers are special. Crazy, yes, but still special. Madeline Hunter
As for Sherrilyn Kenyon’s luncheon speech – I doubt there was one person among the 2,000 present who wasn’t moved by the story of her struggle against fate and personal tragedy to reach the best-seller lists. Her words to everyone who has ever reached for a dream…
… just don’t give up. Ever.