I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.
When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked.
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
