5 Great Quotations about Craft of Writing

“Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.” – Shel Silverstein

“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.” – Lisa Cron

“The whole labor of writing is to make it look like it just came off the top of your head.” – Paddy Chayefsky

“Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.” – William Howard Taft

“It is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.” – Robert Southey

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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A collection of six 'Storytelling 101' guidebooks by Rob Bignell, featuring varying colors and titles, including topics like writing, outlining, and formatting stories.

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