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"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale Be brave, #turtlewriters! You can do so much more than you think you can! 🙂🐢Good luck!❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences." - Anne McCaffrey Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters! Take care & stay safe. 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"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 You can do this, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your writing. 🙂🐢🍀Take care & stay safe!❤️ #WritingCommunity

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." - Robert Frost For me, writing fiction is always 'discovering', even when I *know* what the 'end' will be! My characters have other ideas! Enjoy the journey, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"I get a lot of letters from people. They say, "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it." - Ruth Rendell If you're procrastinating, stop! Make today the day you start writing! Good luck, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love." - Robert Frank Constructive criticism often helps make a good story great, but remember, it's *your* story, no-one else's so you don't have to act on the advice, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference." ― Stephen King Treasure that person - be they a friend, family member, beta reader or editor - because they are really special! Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write." - Somerset Maugham So go for it, #turtlewriters! Don't let anything stop you! Your readers are out there waiting for you! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.” ― R.J. Dennis Believe in yourself, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your writing! Take care & stay safe.🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Anyone who says writing is easy isn’t doing it right.” — Amy Joy When the going gets tough, don't give up! Keep going, #turtlewriters. Write one word after another. They all add up over time & every word is one step nearer your finished book! Good luck!🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it’s full of mistakes and repetitions. It’s good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It’s not a lecture." – Isabel Allende Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." ~ Paul Sweeney Good luck writing your stories so your readers will feel that way about them at the end, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.” ― Pico Iyer So put your heart & soul into your writing, #turtlewriters! You may just be surprised by the enthusiastic warmth of its reception! Good luck!🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over your shoulder, you’ll never write.” ― Nikki Giovanni Believe in yourself and your story, #turtlewriters! Only you can tell it! So go for it! Good luck with your writing! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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"You are a glorious, shining sword and criticism is the whetstone. Do not run from the whetstone or you will become dull and useless. Stay sharp." -Duane Alan Hahn Constructive criticism is always worth listening to, but remember - it's *your* story, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it." ~William Styron Good luck with finding great books to read, so they inspire your own writing! 🍀Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“No two people read the same book, even when it appears to be identical…” - Nancy Pearl Just as no two writers tell the same story, even if it’s one that’s been told many times before! Trust in your own unique voice, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your writing! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing." -Joyce Carol Oates Try not to let negative reviews get you down, #turtlewriters! Even best-selling authors get them, remember! Trust your writer's voice & keep writing! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.” – Maya Angelou Good luck, take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” — Norton Juster Believe in yourselves, #turtlewriters, think positive & turn your dreams into a reality! 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck! 🍀 #WritingCommunity

The edge is where attention runs out, not where anything ends. Same reason a chapter should end mid-breath — the reader finishes the line in their own air.

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle You’re never going to *please* everyone, but there are lots of prospective readers out there who may just love your stories! Be brave & write, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

You know how to survive a zombie apocalypse, but a llama apocalypse? I bet you know nothing about that. #author #authors #writer #writingcommunity #fantasyauthor jamie108839.substack.com/p/the-llama-...

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Thomas Mann So when the going gets tough, take heart, #turtlewriters! You're not alone! We all know how you feel & are cheering you on! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

‘You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.’ - Beverly Sills So take a chance, have courage & go for it, #turtlewriters! You can do this! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” ― Nikki Giovanni Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

‘There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.’ – Beverly Sills So grit your teeth when the going gets tough, #turtlewriters, & keep taking one step after another because the view will be so worthwhile when you do get there! Good luck! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“My aim in constructing sentences is to make the sentence utterly easy to understand, writing what I call transparent prose. I’ve failed dreadfully if you have to read a sentence twice to figure out what I meant.” — Ken Follett Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

The figure isn't standing under the heart — he's leaning into the trunk, like it's holding his weight. That's the whole quote, right there. Loving foolishly isn't the falling; it's staying leaned.

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right." --Ralph Waldo Emerson Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

'The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.' ― Stephen King Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters! Take care & stay safe, 🐢🍀❤️ 🙂 #WritingCommunity

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr #turtlewriters🙂 🐢 #WritingCommunity

"It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all." — William Makepeace Thackeray Love your characters & your story, #turtlewriters, & your readers will love them too! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” - Victor Hugo Give your readers a chance to love your stories, #turtlewriters, in spite of your self doubts. Write, edit & publish them! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

"In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities." — János Arnay So write your story, #turtlewriters! Love it, and if you follow your dreams, nothing is impossible! 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP!🍀 #WritingCommunity

“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.” ― Don Roff You don't always have to be quite that brutal, though! Good luck with your revising/editing, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity

The window in that image is doing the work: beauty framed *by* ruin. Endings aren't chosen so much as cropped. Same story, doomed or hopeful, depending on which frame you cut on. That's not cheating — that's point of view. 🐺

‘But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep.’ – Romain Rolland Embrace inspiration, wherever it comes from, & write that story, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” —Orson Welles For me, a happy ending is an upbeat one which leaves me with some kind of hope for the future. Good luck pinning down the *right* ending for your story, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“What your characters observe—or don’t—can be effective red herrings.” —Jane K. Cleland So have lots of fun with your writing & keep your readers hooked at the same time, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 Good luck! #WritingCommunity

“The glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters.” —Tony Hoagland Good luck with writing & editing your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

‘There is freedom in being a writer & writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, & then simply doing it.’ Natalie Goldberg #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“There’s never been a text written that didn’t need editing.” —David Ku So take heart, #turtlewriters! It may be a challenging mountain to climb, but the views from the top are awesome & the feeling of success exhilarating! Just keep going, one step at a time! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

Unless the moment is actually better told. It's not the norm, I will agree, but there ARE times where telling actually is better. One must be careful not to let it become a crutch, but even the idea of "show, don't tell" is not a hard and fast rule.

“Scenes are capsules in which compelling characters undertake significant actions in a vivid and memorable way that allows the events to feel as though they are happening in real time.” —Jordan E. Rosenfeld Good luck with writing & editing your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“I was still water, held by my surroundings. I am now a river, carving my own path.” ― Scott Stabile Don’t let others stifle or cage you in with their negativity. You have great potential, #turtlewriters! Be brave & follow your dreams. 🙂🐢❤️🍀 Good luck! #WritingCommunity

“Dialogue helps to create original characters and move the plot along. If it isn’t doing either of those things, it probably should be cut.” —James Scott Bell Good luck with writing & editing your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“So when you come across an explanation of the character’s emotion, simply cut the explanation. If the emotion is still shown, then the explanation wasn’t needed. If the emotion isn’t shown, then rewrite the passage so that it is.” - Renni Browne/Dave King #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity