I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.
– Joss Whedon
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
-Saul Bellow
Reminder – Poetry & Place Anthology: Submissions Closing Soon
Just a reminder that submissions for the first Poetry & Place Anthology are closing soon – July 31st.
Have a look at the guidelines right here!
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By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry…-Brandon Sanderson
Improve Your Writing Skills by Reading Widely
Tia Nevitt has created a great infographic outlining reasons why it can be beneficial to read the genres you don’t necessarily write.
Have a look below:
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
– Neil Gaiman
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I’m always pretending that I’m sitting across from somebody. I’m telling them a story, and I don’t want them to get up until it’s finished.
– James Patterson
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
-Truman Capote
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