July 2010
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Jul 20th
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10 Writing Tips that Can Help Almost Anyone by...
1. Write the sentence, not just the story Long ago I got a rejection from the editor of the Santa Monica Review, Jim Krusoe. It said: “Good enough story, but what’s unique about your sentences?” That was the best advice I ever got. Learn to look at your sentences, play with them, make sure there’s music, lots of edges and corners to the sounds. Read your work aloud. Read poetry aloud and try to...
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June 2010
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Wallflower- A Poem
no different from that pale pink paisley print folding into the wall. I tap my loafers against the floor of this party. the room undulates to the sound of fresh notes that melt into us. you walk right past me you don’t even see me stale discontent overwhelms me. But I see you with your men and your women and your clothes and your gold, and your voice causing laughter or streams of tears....
Jun 29th
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Thanks for the Follow!
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Jun 29th
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Dear Meat: Dear Book I Have Yet To Write, →
 I know you’re there, floating around in the crammed space that is my mind. All I’m asking is for you to come out. Leak from my fingers in the form of words; of letters, songs, paragraphs. I don’t care if no one wants to read you; I do. I want to see you in all of your finished glory. I want to…
Jun 29th
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“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A...”
– — Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever) (via teachingliteracy) (via ilovereadingandwriting)
Jun 28th
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Confessions: A Diary Entry from July 29, 2007: A...
Okay, I want to write a novel. I read Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, and it was so inspiring. I wanted to buy a novel that was in a series so that I could have a reason to be excited about the next installment.  The books are so long, but that’s beautiful!  I began to seek out her [Stephenie Meyer’s] process, and it seems she had so much fun writing it. The characters...
Jun 28th
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intertwinewithme: You inspired me to love reading again. I hated the agony, boredom and the turning of pages but you taught me how to dive into every word and the love and simplicity of books again.
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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If you work towards something,
paige-la: basementlily: skinniesandspaceships: you will eventually pass the talented that do nothing. If you are talented and work towards something, people will read about you long after you’ve died.
Jun 28th
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8 Good Writing Practices- Neil Gaiman
Write. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is. Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for...
Jun 27th
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“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to...”
– Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (via herbststurm) (via thebrontes) (via yeahwutheringheights)
Jun 27th
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Getting it Down: Crappy First Drafts →
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Challenge Yourself To Take On Your Biggest Writing... →
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Jun 24th
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“He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of...”
– An Abundance of Kathrines - John Green (via lalalacia) (via quote-book) (via ilovereadingandwriting)
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“Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of...”
– Francesca Lia Block (via owlonthesill)
Jun 24th
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“And here I am poised above with my arms spread flying and there are halos of...”
– Echo by Francesca Lia Block (via sleepyheaded)
Jun 24th
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“A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie...”
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Jun 24th
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“By becoming artists we monsters can sometimes be redeemed. We can give instead...”
– Francesca Lia Block (Pretty Dead) (via bodywithoutorgans)
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