“If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“…Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires.” ― Stephen King #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” - e.e. cummings Love your story, #turtlewriters, & then it will be *true* for your readers! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“All stories have to at least try to explain some small portion of the meaning of life.” — Gene Weingarten Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity #amwriting

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” — Jack Kerouac Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢#WritingCommunity

'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“The best thing...is to loosen my grip on my pen & let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance...Each word tugs another one along, one idea another...that is how books, governments & revolutions are made...how Nature created her species.” Machado de Assis #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity

“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.” ― Vera Nazarian #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.” - Kimberly Black Hope this makes you smile, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your writing.❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana Think positive, and believe in your story, #turtlewriters! It may just change someone's life for the better! Good luck!❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

As I like to say, "There is no one way to write. There is only one way for YOU to write. Find that, and the rest will settle itself in time."

“We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity So let your imagination take you to the most amazing places, #turtlewriters! Good luck!❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“I think maybe today a poem I hope after breakfast I start trying pulling it out of my own gut mostly by force” ― John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas), Epopoeia And the Decay of Satire Poetry or fiction, writing isn't easy to do, #turtlewriters! Good luck with yours!❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” - G. K. Chesterton Don't forget to raise the stakes in your story, #turtlewriters! What does your MC personally risk losing if they fail in their current undertaking? Good luck with your writing.❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London Hope this made you smile! Good luck with wielding that club, #turtlewriters! 🍀 Have fun with your writing. Take care & stay safe! ❤️🙂🐢 Love & ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

"Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously." ~ Lev Grossman Give it careful consideration if it seems constructive, but always remember, it's *your* story* & you must tell it in the way it wants to be told, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢Good luck with *your* writing!🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.” - Ray Bradbury Put your heart into your writing, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Books and stories are medicine, plaster casts for broken lives and hearts, slings for weakened spirits.” - Anne Lamott Every word you write is a little miracle of healing & inspiration in some reader’s day! So put your heart into your stories, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” - George Eliot We writers are always stronger when we stand together, support & encourage each other – so let’s do it, my friends! We'll all benefit! ❤️ ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying." - Anton Chekhov Good luck with your writing, revising & editing! Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” ― Ray Bradbury Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“The trick is to turn your own life into something that has meaning for people whose experience is nothing like your own. Write what you know is reasonable advice. Read what you don’t know is better advice.” – Jeanette Winterson Good luck, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." - Thomas Jefferson A sound observation, though trying to think of one *right* word instead is often a challenge! Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Literature…can take us anywhere — across time & space, the globe, through the lives of people who can never be like us — into the heart of anguish we have never felt — crimes we could not commit.” – Jeanette Winterson #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

"If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so." ~ Lev Grossman Good luck with taking that first step towards making that wish a reality. Love & ((hugs)), #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

‘A house without books is like a room without windows.’ ~Heinrich Mann Give your mind & heart a little respite from the cares & challenges around you, #turtlewriters - there are infinite worlds just waiting for you to open a book! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…" — C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves) Remember, you're not alone, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) to you, 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself." — Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart) Good luck with everything you do, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ Take care & stay safe, my friends. #WritingCommunity

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "& so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." — J.R.R. Tolkien #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell." — Alan Moore (V for Vendetta) You are a writer! So, trust your inner voice & write your story, whatever it may be, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️#WritingCommunity

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?...As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts...yourself too...preserved...like a pressed flower...both strange & familiar." - Cornelia Funke #turtlewriters 🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

"There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask "What if I fall?" Oh but my darling, What if you fly?" — Erin Hanson Follow your dreams, #turtlewriters! Good luck! 🙂🐢🍀❤️((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." - Anne Frank Good luck with your writing, and whatever else you may need it for, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." - E. L. Doctorow Think positive, believe in yourself, & trust your characters, #turtlewriters! You can do this! Good luck! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” —Angela Bassett You have huge potential, #turtlewriters, & a unique writer's voice, so believe in *you* & write the best story you can.🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ―Cormac McCarthy Never give up, #turtlewriters! No matter how long it takes, no matter how many breaks you need, so long as you never stop following your dreams, you will achieve your goals one day. Good luck!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“…Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” —Steve Jobs Even famous writers had to start somewhere, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” —Raymond Joseph Teller See, #turtlewriters, we may be slow, but we create magic with our words! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"A year from now you will wish you had started today." —Unknown Take that first step, write that first word & enjoy the journey, wherever they take you, #turtlewriters. Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot Think positive, #turtlewriters, & follow your dreams. You are full of amazing potential & anything is possible, so long as you take that first step! Good luck with whatever you may need it for. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan Be yourself, #turtlewriters! You are awesome & talented & your readers are out there, waiting to read your stories, with your characters & your voice! 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP! 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford Good luck with whatever challenges you face, #turtlewriters, & especially with your writing! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no. Only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner.” — Arlan Hamilton So, keep submitting, #turtlewriters! Next time you send your story, it might just land on your ideal agent's desk! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic... The best moment of my life was the day I realized...I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously...freeing, & it’s the only way to live your life...” —Cindy Gallop #turtlewriters🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ―A.A. Milne We #turtlewriters know this too. So long as we keep going at our own pace, placing one foot, one word after another, we will reach our goals. So, let's do it! 🙂🐢❤️Good luck with your WIP!🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott Like dancers, no two writers are the same. Have the courage to be *you*. You're the only one who can dance your *dance* & write your story - so stop worrying & just go for it! Write! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity