Quotes by : Chris Baty

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.....

Today’s tangents will become tomorrow’s arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends....

A deadline is, simply put, optimism in its most kick-ass form. It's a potent force that, when wielded....

There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo....

Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing the idea ofwriting a novel in a month....

When your novel first peeks its head into the world, it will look pretty much like every newborn: blotchy,....

If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal. When, on the....

A novel rough draft is like bread dough you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.