Writing Inspiration from Debra Scacciaferro
The Most Interesting Stories
The Most Interesting Stories
The most interesting stories are the ones buried deepest in our psyche. A writer's job is to dig them up, carefully excavate the pieces, fit them back together, and polish them in order to share them with the world. --- Debra Scacciaferro
To Grow As a Writer
The Most Interesting Stories
The Writer as Magician
Writers start out exploring the world through their own viewpoint. "This is what I know. This is what I experienced." But to grow as a writer, you need to reposition yourself to see the world through other people's eyes, too.-- Debra Scacciaferro
The Writer as Magician
The Most Interesting Stories
The Writer as Magician
A writer conjures up a world and its creatures from nothing but observation and memory.
It exists only on the page.
But if the story is compelling and the writer's skill is true, it will live inside the memory of all who read it, intact and alive in the heart and the mind.
-- Debra Scacciaferro
Writing Humor
Lies Writers Tell Themselves
Sure, I'm at the Red Bulls' Soccer Game . . .
But, Honest, it's Research!
It's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.
Writer's Remorse
This happens to me all the time!