VelvetBlory

Sometimes I write. London

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Song for Zula - Phosphorescent

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Zen Pencils Comics: 33. EDGAR MITCHELL: A global consciousness

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And that’s the wild story of how 1 magical astronaut killed 5 of the worlds most powerful people!

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The USA is the centre of Jerusalem.

Lift To Experience

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Oh good

Another Instagram of someone's selfie-sculpted face

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Enough

Self control is under rated.

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What advice do you have for a writer struggling to acquire an agent? My goal is to turn my blog into a novel. I had one agent tell me to reach out again when I had a large following large "enough to impact sales".

I think that yes, you need to build a real following. I have about 80,000 followers but no one reads my work online! Some writers are real stalwarts of the writing community though and you can get as involved as you like.I see blogs as evidence of your ability- like a musician building a back catalogue. When you feel you have a sustained body of work I'd use that to contact an agent, the blog being a portfolio of sorts. Remember also that anything 'published' online will not be touched by an agent - save your best work and use that as an unseen manuscript when you contact them. Hence why I've stopped posting my work online...Did I answer your question? I hope it helped in some way.

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In Australian stories we trust loss and we are very suspicious of success.

Peter Carey, The Art of Fiction No. 188 (via theparisreview)

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The Glories of Word Processing, and Other News

From an ad for the Xerox 860Our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, on David Foster Wallace’s tennis writing: “David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis because life gave it to him … He wrote about it in fiction, essays, journalism, and reviews; it may be his most consistent theme at the surface level. Wallace himself drew... Read More »

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There's one thing that's real clear to me: no one dies with dignity.

Jason Isbell

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What we are: you will be. What you are: we once were.

Matthew Caws

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Life

I just spent the weekend listening to Ben Howard's second album, 'I forget where we were' and seeing Muse and am still picking up my jaw, in awe, of the mesmericity. To say maestro or virtuoso is redundant today but I mean both words in their truest sense. This is white mans' soul and my heart bleeds. Literally it's bleeding. I could die right here...

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this is the only April fools joke that matters

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Reblog if you've never heard of One Direction