“You cannot wait for somebody else to give you the keys. Make your best idea and make it right now the best way that you can right now. Do not wait. You are a machine that can just generate idea after idea after idea, and you need to make your thing right now...
“Writer’s block is a symptom of you don’t know enough. Imagine the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to you. Can you remember who was there, what you were wearing, what the sights, the sounds, the smells were. Now go out and randomly pick...
“It has to pay off in the moment or we simply won’t do it. If I say to myself, well, I’m gonna write this, but I don’t care if anybody reads it until after I’m dead, maybe you would. I’m never gonna write that because I can’t...
“Criticism can be a real help. Not always, but if it’s helpful criticism, who says it, what they say, and where I like to take that criticism.” ~Gabby Gruen Gabby Gruen is appearing on StoryBeat for the second time. He has been a writer and producer...
“You know, every time that you hear somebody who is happy with what they’re doing or you think, if I do that, I’m going to sell books or if I do that, not necessarily, uh, you have to do what works for you because if you don’t love it,...
