“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” — Mark Twain Go for it! Believe in yourself, #turtlewriters, & never stop following your dreams! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Simplicity is a virtue in writing, true; but never the primary virtue. … Vividness is.” —Dwight V. Swain. Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! I hope you have a wonderfully productive writing session. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Every life has death, & every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.” ― Mary Stewart Worry & self-doubt waste energy, #turtlewriters! Start now! Write your story. Let your characters live & be loved! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"When describing nature...seize upon small details... you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, & then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared." -Anton Chekhov #turtlewriters🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” ― Margaret Atwood Believe in yourself, #turtlewriters! Write your story! Revise & edit it. Then let it fly free. No-one can read it until you do! 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP! You can do this! ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"Anyone & everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, & trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress..." - Nick Hornby Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"There is something in the human spirit that will survive & prevail, there is a tiny & brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes." - Leo Tolstoy Keep going, #turtlewriters, & one day, you will reach your goal. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.” ― Anton Chekhov Love your characters & your story, #turtlewriters, & become the writer you're meant to be! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #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

"Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer—however happy, however tragic—is ever wasted." - P.D. James Good luck with whatever you may need it for, #turtlewriters! Especially for your WIP!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"Remember your dreams & fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure." — Paulo Coelho Believe in yourself, #turtlewriters, & follow your dream!🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP!🍀 #WritingCommunity

‘A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.’ ~Maurice Sendak Put your heart & soul into your writing, #turtlewriters! Your readers will feel it when you do. Good luck with your WIP.🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn Follow your dreams, #turtlewriters! It's amazing what you can achieve if you do! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Employ an unreliable narrator, preferably one who doesn't know he is insane & has no recollection of such events as digging into a grave to rip out the teeth of his recently departed lover.” – falsely attributed to Edgar Allan Poe, but good advice! #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #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

“Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.” – Henry Miller Trust your gut instincts, #turtlewriters! Put your heart & soul into your writing. Good luck with your WIP. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

‘Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.’ - Ernst Lubitsch Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ~William Somerset Maugham Remember, #turtlewriters, when you write, you're constructing a refuge both for yourself & for everyone who reads your story!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” — Wayne Dyer Think positive, believe in yourself & follow your dreams, #turtlewriters! You can do this & we're right here cheering you on. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment & to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you.’” – Saul Bellow Start a new WIP whilst submitting, so you stay upbeat & motivated, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison Keep going, #turtlewriters! Write one word, one sentence, one paragraph after another until, one day, you'll find you've finished your book! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books." ~Julian Barnes Never underestimate the power of your story & your voice, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely & isolated from anyone. You belong." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald You're never alone when you have #turtlewriters cheering you on! Good luck!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head.” — Jon Acuff Have confidence in your writing, #turtlewriters! You have a great story & you're the only one who can tell it! So keep writing!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #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

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” - Oscar Wilde Write at your own pace, #turtlewriters! However slow that might be, your characters will wait for you because It's your story & you're the only one who can tell it how it should be told. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

It started, as these things often do, with a whisper that made me tremble. A murmur on the radio, a voice that spoke of change, of a world on the cusp. “History unfolding” they called it. A grand, sweeping narrative that led only to a tangle of broken promises and autocracy #RetroArtPrompt #tremble

It is now #PiDay / #PieDay, so Sweet Dreams is now live! A #TTRPG module for Apocalypse Keys pits Omen-class monsters against a candy landscape Links Calenmir’s RPGs: www.calenmirsrpgs.com/Shop/p/Sweet... Itch: calenmirs-rpgs.itch.io/Sweet-Dreams DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

"Just as one candle lights another & can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart & can illuminate thousands of other hearts." - Leo Tolstoy Put your heart into your WIP, #turtlewriters, & it will illuminate your readers' hearts, too.🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #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

I'm thrilled @blackharepress.bsky.social have accepted my horror sci-fi story 'The Gift That Keeps Giving' for their forthcoming anthology 'Eerie Christmas 4'! 🎄🎅! Perfect Christmas reading for all #horror fans! Pre-order link books2read.com/Eerie-4

“…the beginning of my stories is always very promising & looks as though I were starting on a novel, & the middle is huddled & timid, & the end is...like fireworks.” - Anton Chekhov Everyone struggles with the muddy middle, #turtlewriters! Trust yourself & keep going! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

'Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, & which are completely unnecessary to know.' - Leo Tolstoy Good luck with whatever you may need it for, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"The kinder & more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy & dull things become cheerful." - Leo Tolstoy #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

'It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.' - William Shakespeare Believe in yourself, like we believe in you, #turtlewriters, and anything is possible. Good luck with your WIP. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.” - Henry Miller Pass on a little love, hope, encouragement, a kind word, or even a smile, #turtlewriters, & everyone's day will be a hundred times brighter! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

Fifty years ago, I'd have KILLED to take photos like this. Well. Ok. I'd have been willing to say something slighting about somebody's hair to take photos like this, fifty years ago. It's just down to the hagling really🥴 Nikon 180-600mm lens

"...A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, & that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones." -Anton Chekhov Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity

“A writer reports on the universe...the gates of heaven & hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense & god’s accusations...The writer can be anything & any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.” - Bangambiki Habyarimana #turtlewriters🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity

Find people who help you feel more at home in your heart, mind & body...who take joy in your joy...who love you, for real...who accept you, for real. Just as you are...Your tribe is waiting for you. Don’t stop searching until you find them.” -Scott Stabile #turtlewriters🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Find people who can handle your darkest truths...who don’t change the subject when you share your pain, or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle...&...there’s no weakness in admitting it.” - Scott Stabile #turtlewriters🙂🐢 ❤️🍀 #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

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." — John Keats Follow your dreams, #turtlewriters! Write your story, however long it takes because, one day, the power of your imagination will touch your readers' hearts & minds & perhaps change their lives forever.🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” - Oscar Wilde Don't forget to love your characters, #turtlewriters! They need to know they're special! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

I'm proud to have co-edited The Curse of Kalaga, this dark, gripping new horror story with a shocking vampire twist by Jamaican writer Alexis Chateau. Thoroughly recommend it! 🎉🖤 #turtlewriters author #horror #Vampires #NewRelease #Jamaican www.amazon.com/Curse-Kalaga...

“It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.” — P.D. James Good luck making your dream a reality, #turtlewriters! Be yourself & put your heart into your writing & then your style will shine through it! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

“To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” - Mark Twain We love celebrating your successes, big or small, with you, #turtlewriters! Each one is an achievement, a stepping stone that takes you nearer to reaching your goal. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 Good luck! #WritingCommunity

“Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic—but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin—on the surface—without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.” - Audrey Hepburn Have a wonderful day, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, & there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches." —Dita Von Teese You'll never please everyone, #turtlewriters! Remember, many bestselling books were rejected by publishers first/ or get poor reviews! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” —Arianna Huffington Comparing yourself to other writers wastes time & energy! Every writer is different. You are unique, #turtlewriters! Be the best *you* that you can be! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity