The Knitting Wordsmith

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[ammnontet]

my nothing

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

"Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning." - S.C. Lourie

[dduane]

…Going through some old photos. Here: when your editor pranks you and you don’t notice it for years after the fact…

[voxmyriad]

We're still doing this with every Star Trek book that has a different city/location! It's one of my favorite things to add to the interiors. I always wonder if anyone will notice. Completely delighted that you only noticed now! Check your title pages, everyone 😁

[rosiesdreams-deactivated2023081]

On the boardwalk  by  aronsche

[writerswritecompany]

Time To Sleep

Source for comic: wawawiwacomics

[itscolossal]

Elegant Glass ‘Elytra’ Wings Cleverly Unfurl from Radhika Dhumal’s Expandable Wooden Table

[scottpartridge]

Grackles, 16″ x 20″ acrylic on panel 2023

[writeroftheprompts]

“Ouch.” “Sorry, no hugs for now.” “No, no. It’s a whole lot better than what I thought would happen. You know, waking up dead.”

And then they said…

Have a character say this and build on from there. Where the conversation and the story goes is up to you!

[redportrait]

me, having deeply fallen out of the practice of writing poetry: I can’t write any more, I am now a Talentless Hack

the voice of my 11th grade journalism/12th grade creative writing teacher who rly did know everything: if you stop writing for a while the words will build up and stagnate. to clear the water, you will have to open the dam completely, and accept the fact that what initially comes out will not be palatable

[nanowrimo]

“World-building can seem overwhelming. One trick is to avoid listing only large-scale details. Think of it like a camera; you want to zoom in and give readers specific details of your world.”

—Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning writer and author of the young adult novels Dealing in Dreams and The Education of Margot Sanchez, both from Simon & Schuster and available now in bookstores everywhere. Her work has appeared in Elle, Los Angeles Times, Tin House, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to name a few. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles. Follow @lilliamr on Twitter.

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Text added over original image by Malte Wingen on Unsplash.

[writerswritecompany]

Quotable – John Dos Passos

Find out more about the author here

[themightyneckbeard]

I just want to find my person and go on adventures with them.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.

Sarah Addison Allen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[writeroftheprompts]

An island is destroyed by a natural disaster. The only one who survives is the lighthouse keeper. Write it from the keeper’s POV as they try to find out what happened to everyone else.

All it takes is one spark to get your story going.

[pridefulsuggestion]

if we could all stop pretending we are whole, and instead embrace our constant becoming…

[threshold-suggestion]

…perhaps we could begin to love the process of growth and change, rather than anxiously awaiting the final form.

[characterdevelopmentforwriters]

Describe your character’s laugh.

[characterdevelopmentforwriters]

How frequently does your character sleep on the floor/ground?