Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

[lapetitemadelyne]

DEAR YOU

How are you? I hope you’re well.

[bookporn]

Daedalus Bookshop by Gabi Hutchison

[writingdotcoffee]

Good stories are told through small details.

Marion Roach (via writingdotcoffee)

[heronfem]

Gentle reminder that often creativity decides to hibernate for a bit.

It’s okay.  You’re not broken, you’re resting, and much like spring, creativity comes back.

[linda-belcher]

Proofreading my own writing, like, wow. You sure do love those commas, buddy. What if you tried to cool it with all those commas, pal? All those run-ons, friend. Why don’t you tone it down, my guy?

[more-legit-gr8er-writing-tips]

Is it okay if France doesn't exist in my story? Like there is no particular reason for it I just really don't like France.

There’s no justification for France to exist anyway, so go for it.

[fyp-philosophy]

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

African proverb (via fyp-philosophy)

[harpercollins]

Happy Typewriter Day!

[desicoups]

tag urself i’m lord B Y E ron

[psyffindor]

Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book.

— Malala Yousafzai (via psyffindor)

[wordsnquotes]

Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.

Kait Rokowski (via featherumbrellas)

[theparisreview]

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

Javier Marías, The Art of Fiction No. 190 (via theparisreview)

[lupanthropy]

“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”

 Neil Gaiman  (via hivernants)

[fuckyeahtattoos]

Done by Cory Heisson at Caged Raven Tattoo, Worcester MA

[lapetitemadelyne]

So dope.

[stannisbaratheon]

@WorstMuse is a relic of the human race

[theparisreview]

If you don’t like someone’s story, you write your own.

Chinua Achebe (Paris Review, 1994)

[lapetitemadelyne]

Writing while deliriously tired

While Writing: I'm so creative right now, it's like all the normal constraints have been lifted. Wow I wrote 2,000 words in 30 minutes! This is going to be great.

Rereading the Next Day: I used the word 'Beautiful' 8 times in this sentence and instead of 'reassuring' I wrote 'refrigerator.' Also the tenses switched 3 times in one paragraph and I started writing about a character who isn't even in this story.