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writingdotcoffee

Rule one, you have to write. If you don’t write, nothing will happen.

Neil Gaiman (via writingdotcoffee)

#neil gaiman #writer's life

skulandcrossbones

What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?

#writing life #writing process

thefugitivesaint

“In conversation with the writer NK Jemisin after the news broke, we talked about how sad it is, and about Nichols’s impact on Jemisin’s career. “Without Nichelle Nichols I might have never been a writer, certainly not the kind of writer I am now,” she said. And that’s the thing about trailblazers like Nichols: they create an environment in which the path they opened is widened by those that they affected. Jemisin is widely regarded as one of the best writers of our generation, and though Nichols may not have realized what she wrought in the moment, I hope she knows in some beautiful afterlife that she helped make that possible.”

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“For decades after Star Trek ended, Nichols was known for being encouraging, strong, and razor sharp. She was funny and sweet, and her work was always a presence in any conversation about science fiction or media representation. She was a cultural force that no one could ignore even when she wasn’t technically the focus in a conversation about the importance of inclusion and diversity. Her impact on others ran so deep that she was cited as an example by academics, activists and anyone who knew anything about the world as it had been and wanted to make the world the best it could be.” (Source)

#nichelle nichols #star trek #nk jemisin #the writer

theliteraryarchitect

Writers keep in mind while you’re working on your current WIP, you’re learning skills that may not result in you being able to complete that particular WIP to your satisfaction, but WILL bear fruit in your NEXT WIP. Like, you might’ve blown up this science project, but next time (or the time after, or the time after…) you’ll nail it because of what you learned while setting fire to this one.

#writing life #the writer

friscolibrary-deactivated202001

#margaret atwood #the writer

sheepskeleton

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”

— Octavia E. Butler, “Furor Scribendi” in Bloodchild and Other Stories (via wordswilling)

#octavia e butler #writing habits

whatsinsideawritersmind

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn’t leave you.

Natalie Goldberg (from Writing Down the Bones)

#natalie goldberg #the writer

theliteraryarchitect

Writing tip #4: If you’re struck with the parade-raining realization that your story idea has been “done” before, all you have to do is simply WRITE IT ANYWAY. Remember: Clichés tremble under the shadow of pure, unapologetic joy.

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aureliobooks

my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

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theliteraryarchitect

Try to bust yourself gently of the fantasy that publication will heal you, will fill the Swiss cheesey holes. It won’t, it can’t. But writing can.

Anne Lamott (via theliteraryarchitect)

#anne lamott #publishing #The Writer

insert-writing-blog-name

How new WIPs are born:

thatdisasterauthor

Don't call me out like this.

saint-batrick

sometimes you have a plot gargoyle that shrieks at you via pm until you hit them with a broom.

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love2bfit

I love this.

#writing life

primordialsoundmeditation

#eckhart tolle #editing

writingdotcoffee

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.

David Morrell (via writingdotcoffee)

#david morrell #writing process

whatsinsideawritersmind

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Ernest Hemingway (via whatsinsideawritersmind)

#ernest hemingway #the writer

pens-swords-stuff

Your writing is wonderful, I promise!

#Good Writing

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