Julie Israel

writer | reader | maker of art & mischief

[tomclancysfan]

[ltwilliammowett]

A tall ship disappears into a thick fog in Rock Harbor, Massachusetts. Fog can make navigation difficult and dangerous. Photograph by James P. Blair

[sam-scribbler]

writing be like

[beautifulterriblequeen]

feeling that twenty minute gap lads

[julieisrael]

Your first draft is finished. You’ve taken your break from the manuscript, and now you’re ready to come back to it with fresh eyes — and maybe an edit letter. The burning question…

[forestgreenlesbian]

Queensdale Road, London W11

[random-brushstrokes]

Willy Pogany (American, 1882–1955) - Hand to the Stars

[neil-gaiman]

Hi. I want to write novels. I cant seem to write said novels. Any advice? (Please dont bully me for my sentence structure I've been drinking only way I was gonna be brave enough to ask you this)

Useful things to remember :

Nobody else is going to write it for you.

Write smaller things first. (You wouldn't expect someone's first run to be a marathon.)

It's okay to mess up. Just write. Think about learning a musical instrument, or a martial art. There's usually a lot of practice involved before you get competent let alone good. Writing a novel is going to be like that.

Your first few novels may not be any good either and that's okay. The first pancake you make is normally a disaster as well.

You don't have to know everything about what you're writing before you start. You need room enough to imagine and to invent. But you need to know what the story is about and what it's for and a sense of what happens.

[the-dead-poets]

if i could live in a museum, i would

[e-louise-bates]

At the end of The Princess Bride, when Inigo tells Westley he doesn't know what to do with himself now that he's not in the revenge business anymore, and Westley tells him he'd be a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts?

The name of Dread Pirate Roberts' ship is The Revenge. Which means Inigo still gets to be in The Revenge business.

I have been watching this movie since I was at least five years old, and I never made the connection until now. (Feel free to tell me you all saw it long ago.)

[frederick-the-ii]

*RARE* John Denver & Johnny Cash - Take Me Home Country Roads

Found this while going through my granddad’s VHS tapes and couldn’t find it anywhere online, so here it is.

[nunyabizni]

Every time I’m lucky enough to have this hit my dash I listen to it, and every time I get chills all the way through.

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

superb

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

I’m so at peace rn

[beetleboo]

@nuka-nuke

[lehcarrose]

imagine harmonising with johnny cash on your own song, i’d die on the spot this is beautiful

[makenzie-rush]

That was John Denver’s gift though. He was an amazing song writer, but the man could harmonize with just about anyone.

[tsunamiwavesurfing]

[fleur-aesthetic]

instagram | vondavhoef

[julieisrael]

I am so-efficient-at-storing-things-I-forget-where-they-are years old

[sweetoothgirl]

LEMON COCONUT PETAL CAKE

[iwhumpyou]

One of the best tips for writing descriptions of pain is actually a snippet I remember from a story where a character is given a host of colored pencils and asked to draw an egg.

The character says that there’s no white pencil.  But you don’t need a white pencil to draw a white egg.  We already know the egg is white.  What we need to draw is the luminance of the yellow lamp and the reflection of the blue cloth and the shadows and the shading.

We know a broken bone hurts.  We know a knife wound hurts.  We know grief hurts.  Show us what else it does.

You don’t need to describe the character in pain.  You need to describe how the pain affects the character - how they’re unable to move, how they’re sweating, how they’re cold, how their muscles ache and their fingers tremble and their eyes prickle.

Draw around the egg.  Write around the pain.  And we will all be able to see the finished product.

[vida-imensa]

Siobhan Ferguson

[beggars-opera]

The Death’s Heads of the Old Burial Ground, Marblehead, Massachusetts

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