January 2011
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New Years Resolutions 2011
housingworksbookstore:
- I will finally, finally accomplish Literary Jello Wrestling for Charity.
- I will find a legitimate reason to inflate a bouncy castle inside the store.
If either one of these things happen… I’ll be there.
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New Years Resolutions 2011
housingworksbookstore:
- I will finally, finally accomplish Literary Jello Wrestling for Charity.
- I will find a legitimate reason to inflate a bouncy castle inside the store.
If either one of these things happen… I’ll be there.
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Happy New Year to all my lovely followers!
I hope this year brings lots of inspiration and writing to you all!
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Happy New Year to all my lovely followers!
I hope this year brings lots of inspiration and writing to you all!
December 2010
I love when I reread something I've written a long...
or tear up, or react the way I’d want a reader to react. It makes me feel like I’m doing something right.
“What are books but tangible dreams?”
– Rikki Ducornet
“What are books but tangible dreams?”
– Rikki Ducornet
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via libraryland)
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via libraryland)
Rewriting.
obsessive-andrew:
I feel like this is the only way to get through the writers block that has diseased my writing lately.
Rewriting.
obsessive-andrew:
I feel like this is the only way to get through the writers block that has diseased my writing lately.
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
snapesgrudge:
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
snapesgrudge:
(1137) My biggest dream is to one day write a...
i don’t even care about the famous part, to be honest.
(1137) My biggest dream is to one day write a...
i don’t even care about the famous part, to be honest.
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73 Ways to Become a Better Writer →
Another lovely link left in my ask box by the lovely keahnicole. Thanks!
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73 Ways to Become a Better Writer →
Another lovely link left in my ask box by the lovely keahnicole. Thanks!
When people tell me they don't like to read:
petalsquotesandthorns:
thesinkingsun:
^^
When people tell me they don't like to read:
petalsquotesandthorns:
thesinkingsun:
^^
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
– Lawrence Kasdan
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
– Lawrence Kasdan
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Sarah Dessen's Rules for Writing a Novel →
Thanks keahnicole!
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Sarah Dessen's Rules for Writing a Novel →
Thanks keahnicole!
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I think I just decided that I hate fanfic.
Usually the writing sucks, and it makes me wish things that didn’t happen did. And it’s frustrating when I notice commas missing. I think I’m done with it.
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Enriching your story-world →
the-write-idea:
Ever read a book where it teems with life, where you can really feel that things are happening beyond the page, as if you’re viewing a window on a world that lives and breathes whether you read about it or not?
More importantly, is your writing like that? Because it should be, as this is one of the three techniques that trump every other in writing.
So how do we go about...
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Enriching your story-world →
the-write-idea:
Ever read a book where it teems with life, where you can really feel that things are happening beyond the page, as if you’re viewing a window on a world that lives and breathes whether you read about it or not?
More importantly, is your writing like that? Because it should be, as this is one of the three techniques that trump every other in writing.
So how do we go about...
“I have learned, long ago, that I can organize my office and my calendar and my...”
– Sarah Dessen, on writing. (Thanks keahnicole)
that suddenly inspired, tingly feeling.
that suddenly inspired, tingly feeling.
