More Motivational Moments…for Writers!
Plot: I am currently finishing my newest novel and I have to tell you, the loosely-built plot that I had envisioned when I began is gone by the wayside. Way, way off and into the forest, in fact. About halfway through, the characters took me on a journey, making their own decisions, loving who they wanted to love, building their homesteads their way. When this happens to me, I welcome their storyline in… They know better than I do at that point. My characters write a better story than I ever could.
“The last thing I want to do is spoil a book with plot. I think a plot is the last resort of bad writers. I’m a lot more interested in characters and situations; following where it goes. In Cujo, I was as surprised as my readers when the little kid died at the end.”
—Stephen King
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
—Robert Frost
‘As a writer, I marinate, speculate and hibernate.’ Trisha Sugarek
