Sublime

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Never answer a suspect’s questions, Bill used to say. They answer yours.

If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I’ll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn’t . . . well, I’m in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don’t have time to waste with the poorly written ones.

I want to put a group of characters (perhaps a pair; perhaps even just one) in some sort of predicament and then watch them try to work themselves free. My job isn’t to help them work their way free, or manipulate them to safety – those are jobs which require the noisy jackhammer of plot – but to watch what happens and then write it down. The