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My favourite quotes from Jenna Moreci's Shut Up and Write the Book

I was sent an e-ARC of Shut Up and Write the Book by @jennamoreci in exchange for an honest review, and I was absolutely blown away by how good this writing craft book is!

Watch my full video review here.

Now, without further ado, here are some of my favourite quotes from the book:

"You experience enough pressure on the daily. Writing should be an escape, not a burden."

"That’s the crux of imagination: It’s play."

"Congratulations, you’re officially a businessperson, and it behooves you to study the industry you’re entering."

"It’s a lot easier to ride out the difficult parts of the writing process when you deeply care about the material and genuinely believe in its message."

"That’s the beauty of being a writer; we have the power to destroy and create however we please."

"Experience is one of the biggest assets to your writing."

"Allow your audience to experience the world as the characters journey through the story."

"If your world-building is lacking variety, it’s lacking realism."

"Present tense is easier to write, and past tense is easier to read. But you can make either tense work in your favour."

"Accept the suckage."

"Once you go back to edit your first chapter, you’ll be doing so as a stronger, more competent creator."

"The first chapter of your novel is designed to make your readers care."

"Chapters allow your reader to find natural pauses within the story."

"The key to keeping your reader engaged isn’t necessarily to make the story itself unpredictable, but to make the emotional tone unpredictable… The easiest way to do this is to employ the Roller-Coaster Method – starting and ending each chapter with a different emotion."

"A great chapter will answer enough questions to move the plot forward while creating even more questions to keep people reading."

"Let go of the need to have everyone interpret your setting in the exact manner you see it."

"Your novel should be a series of low and high points as well as slow and fast points weaving in and out of one another."

"You don’t just want to surprise the reader – you want to answer a question the readers may not have had in the first place."

"Readers tend to prefer protagonists who work hard for what they desire."

"Think of the climax as the explosion and the resolution as the dust settling."

"Don’t just recount the events of the story. Too much telling will destroy the ability of the reader to immerse themselves in the novel."

"The more I write, the less I see my bad habits popping up, which means my first drafts become cleaner and cleaner as I grow."

"Your title is a marketing tool designed to attract the right audience."

"The book is finished because you say so."

If you write genre fiction novels, this book is for you! So, get your copy now.

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Fog Riders, 1895/6 by Albert Welti (Swiss, 1862–1912)

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love saying i’ve been getting really into mundane normal things as if they’re a new undiscovered hobby. been getting really into pudding cups lately.

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Stephan Sinding - Adoration (1903)

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Luis Ricardo Falero - Witches going to their Sabbath (1878)

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Donald Sultan - Ten Hearts March 23 1989, 1989

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Eros - Strikes by Federico Ferro

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maybe a little bit horny