Tip 2: be nosy, listen to conversations. You might just get a phenomenal idea!

Tip 1: get inspiration from songs. Songs can have great lyrics to inspire you and an amazing story!

Tip 3: read, read and read some more. You can get inspiration from plots and make it your own!

Tip 4: download or find a story plot generator. Simple as that.

Tip 5: brainstorm. There are no wrong answers.

Mistake 1: spelling changes. Make sure you spell names, locations, magic spells, etc, the same all the way through. Also, be consistent with capitilization.

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.

I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.

What I really, really want to do is pre-packaged meals. Fabulous versions that are delicious, healthy, not too expensive and very low in fat. So, that's my big dream, because there's a massive hole in the market for that.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.

Positive affirming relationsips bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Great happiness found in good relationships greatest pain found in bad relationships.

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night fall.

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

I wouldn't be the first quarterback from California to go to cold weather. I think Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are doing pretty well and been able to do it.

If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.

I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.

I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there's a point, it's easier for me to see the people I love and hang out and try to have fun.