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A golden sky over a storm-tossed sea.
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
- Nicholas Sparks
If you pour love into your writing, #turtlewriters, your readers will feel it and love your story too! 🙂🐢🍀❤️Good luck with everything! #WritingCommunity
I think I'm on schedule.
If I'm right, later this week, there will be more to hear.
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch
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“Make a half-hour or hour in a day, or an hour in a week, for writing. Just make sure you have at least one designated time—however long it is, given your constraints—to focus on writing.”
– Roxane Gay
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
Black & white image of someone thumbing through an open thesaurus.
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
— Stephen King
But sometimes you just need reminding of the word on the tip of your tongue! Don't be afraid to disagree with the greats! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
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“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.”
— Louise Brown
Remember, most bestselling authors have drawers full of rejection slips! They're published because they kept going & didn't give up! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
A writer writing by hand in a notebook, with a printed book lying open on the desk next to a mug of black coffee.
“I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Make sure you can always record that wonderful idea/plot hole solution that always pounces on you at the most inopportune moment! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
Dotting I's.
Crossing T's.
Being sure I forgot something.
And hoping what I think will work, will actually work.
Details soon.
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch
Tall stems of yellow wild flowers in a meadow, with hills and a blue & white cloudy sky beyond.
“The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.”
— E.B. White
Think positive & keep going, #turtlewriters! Good luck with editing your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
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“I go out to my little office, where I’ve got a manuscript, & the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that, & it’s like getting on a taxiway. I’m able to go through & revise it & put myself — click — back into that world.”
Stephen King
Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
Time for a day of scouting and shopping. Lots to plan for after all.
What for?
Stay tuned.
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch
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“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good & bad, & see how they do it...Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
— William Faulkner
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
A mixture of SciFi & Fantasy images, including a silhouetted figure in an archway watching spaceships over a cityscape at sunset.
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
— Tom Clancy
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
A four leaf clover, wet with rain.
“To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.”
— Anita Shreve
Never give up, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
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“You fail only if you stop writing.”
— Ray Bradbury
Think positive & keep going, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
With my next book coming out soon, I could use reviews and/or blog stops to help promote it.
I don't suppose anyone knows of any who are taking sci-fi novels to review. Of course I want honest, not just the promise of a 5 star glowing one. ;)
#WritingCommunity #TurtleWriters #IndieAuthor
A toffee-coloured retriever lying fast asleep, cuddling a small white teddy bear.
"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses."
— Lao Tzu
Something to bear in mind as you’re writing, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
Close-up of bright pink flowerheads and green leaves, with hazy golden foliage in the distance.
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
- Oscar Wilde
If you pour that love into your writing, #turtlewriters, your story will grow & blossom to entrance & delight your readers! 🙂🐢🍀❤️Good luck with everything! #WritingCommunity
A long line of partially-illuminated bookshelves in a shadowy library.
“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
— Samuel Johnson
Good luck with making time for both reading & your writing, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
A beautiful rainbow arching over a cliff and rocky seashore.
"The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
- Gustave Flaubert
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
Fantasy image of a pair of human eyes in close-up, superimposed over a golden sunset and a wave crashing onto the shore.
“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
- Anais Nin
Which may or may not be good. Sometimes it helps to talk to a friend & see things from another perspective, #turtlewriters! Good luck with whatever you may need it for! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
Silhouette of a young boy sitting, leaning against a tree, reading, against a sunset sky.
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
— Philip Pullman
So let's read them or write them, #turtlewriters! Good luck with whichever you do, or both! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
The Earth illuminated by a blaze of light, viewed from Space.
“I’m very lucky in that I don’t understand the world yet. If I understood the world, it would be harder for me to write these books.”
— Mo Willems
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
A blazing yellow and orange fire.
“Find a subject you care about & which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling & seductive element in your style.”
— Stephen King
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity
A young woman holding onto one side of the high wire mesh railings on a suspended walkway leading towards grass and trees.
"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
-Virginia Woolf
Don't let fear of what other people might think hold you back as a writer or in life generally, #turtlewriters! You are your own person with your own story to tell & to live! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
A piece of antique, handmade paper.
“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
— Sidney Sheldon
Think positive, #turtlewriters! Trust yourself, your story & your characters & get that first word written! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
A waterfall cascading down green foliage-covered cliff, with a mountain and golden sunset sky beyond.
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
— Ray Bradbury
Love your writing & have fun doing it, #turtlewriters! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity
*Words have Power* chalked onto a blackboard.
“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity
A man holding a child's hand, walking out of a forest path towards a sunset-lit lake.
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.”
— Orson Scot
Wishing you lots of fun, inspiration, creativity & good luck, #turtlewriters! 🍀 ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity
A woman standing near a huge vertical book that contains a forest landscape, the whole scene set against a dawn sky.
“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”
— Victor Hugo
Or even multiple worlds! Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity
A tiny yacht with two figures on board, silhouetted against a pink and peach dawn.
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
— Frank Herbert
I love this quote! It's how I've always felt about my favourite books! Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe.❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity
