word spin

creating a web of words to capture your mind

[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.

[wilwheaton]

I needed to read this today.

[constable-connor-deactivated201]

I needed to hear this

[thelovejournals]

For you, a ;thousand times over.

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via thelovejournals)

[wordspin]

"Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."

Eckhart Tolle

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Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

Meg Rosoff

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Sorry guys

Sorry guys i been slipping a little on wicked love, but im working on it, forgive me those of you who are reading.

[wordspin]

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

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Tuesday’s Tip #4 Follow Your Heart, Not Trends

Hello everyone sorry I am getting to you late tonight. I’ve had a bit of a busy day, meetings and baby stuff to attend to but at last here I am with your tip of the week. 

How often is it that you’ve trashed an idea or a story because it wasn’t what was considered “the social norm” ? Sure there are stories that will be more popular, more “trendy” so to speak. But honestly, if your heart isn’t in please do not force yourself to write it. Writing is supposed to be something we love, our form of release, of getting everything that we feel into our heart down onto paper. If writing is something you love than treat it like your soulmate! You wouldn’t pimp the person you love out on the street for a quick buck would you??? Well don’t treat your craft that way. Embrace your craft and write the story that is in your heart. All of us have a story in our hearts, a story that is dying to be told. Don’t sell yourself out for the quick teenage love stories involving sparkly vampires (if you’re into that thing fine! but only if you’re REALLY into it). Don’t settle for something that you aren’t passionate about. 

If you’re dying to tell a story about a clown that fell in love with a princess, fine do it. If you want to write about a zombie apocalypse that started in a senior home and there were old grandpa and grandma zombies running around so be it! It wouldn’t be my first choice but that’s why it is YOUR story. Look if you’re only in it to make money you will never be happy. Your’e always going to be searching for the next dollar you can make. Turning your craft into a quick meaningless job. Why not write the story you love? If it doesn’t become a best seller so what. At least you loved what you were doing. Pick up the pen (or turn on the computer) and start on the next story. Maybe you won’t get published for 5 years. Or maybe you’ll never have New York Times Bestseller, but so what. Love the story that you write and it’s guaranteed that there is a reader that will love the passion in your words. 

Take it from a very,very dedicated reader like me. Anyone that reads your story will be able to tell whether your heart was really in the piece you’ve been working on.

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

Edgar Allen Poe

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway