“A writer is a writer not because she writes well & easily...has amazing talent or...everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there’s no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.” - Junto Diaz #turtlewriters🙂🐢#WritingCommunity

"My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter." ~Thomas Helm Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀

"Reading in English, living in English, has taught me to make language as beautiful as possible, but precise. Excessive adjectives, excessive description — skip it, it’s unnecessary." – Isabel Allende Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wadsworth Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” – William H. Gass Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀

"One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night." ~Dr. SunWolf Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #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 🙂🐢🍀❤️((hugs)) Take care & stay safe, my friends. #WritingCommunity

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” - W. Somerset Maugham I suspect this may apply to the stories we're writing, too. Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🐢🙂 #WritingCommunity

“Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil — but there is no way around them.” — Isaac Asimov Even famous writers get them, so don't stop. Keep trying. Good luck, #turtlewriters ((hugs))❤️🐢🙂🍀 #WritingCommunity

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” - Oscar Wilde Love comes in many guises! You're a writer & sing *that* song with every word you write! Good luck, #turtlewriters ❤️ 🙂🐢 🍀 #writingCommunity

"The friend who understands you, creates you." - Romain Rolland You are a writer! You have a great story & only *you* can tell it in the way it wants to be told. You can do it! We believe in you, #turtlewriters! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #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 greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain...but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, & from writer to reader spreads the fire...until it becomes a vast conflagration..." - Romain Rolland #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.” — Ernest Gaines Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"The dread of criticism is the death of genius." – William Gilmore Simms Please don’t let fear stifle your creativity, #turtlewriters! Be brave & think positive. Readers are waiting to fall in love with your story, but you have to write it first! Good luck. 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day." - Romain Rolland Make the most of the day ahead. Think positive & follow your dream, whatever that may be, #turtlewriters! Good luck with everything you do. 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic." – Carl Sagan The power to work magic resides inside you, #turtlewriters! All you have to do is write your stories, no matter how long it may take you! Good luck! 🙂 🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.” — Irwin Shaw Think positive & keep going, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.” - Theodore Dreiser Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” — Henry David Thoreau Think positive & keep going, however long it takes you, #turtlewriters! Good luck with editing your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” - Nicholas Sparks If you pour love into your writing, #turtlewriters, your readers will feel it and love your story too! 🙂🐢🍀❤️Good luck with everything! #WritingCommunity

“Make a half-hour or hour in a day, or an hour in a week, for writing. Just make sure you have at least one designated time—however long it is, given your constraints—to focus on writing.” – Roxane Gay Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” — Stephen King But sometimes you just need reminding of the word on the tip of your tongue! Don't be afraid to disagree with the greats! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.” — Louise Brown Remember, most bestselling authors have drawers full of rejection slips! They're published because they kept going & didn't give up! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Make sure you can always record that wonderful idea/plot hole solution that always pounces on you at the most inopportune moment! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.” — E.B. White Think positive & keep going, #turtlewriters! Good luck with editing your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

I'm thrilled my #steampunk / #horror short story 'The Crimson-Cogged Luciferion' has been accepted by @blackharepress.bsky.social for FALLEN. 🖤🍀 Look at that gorgeous cover! 🖤

“I go out to my little office, where I’ve got a manuscript, & the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that, & it’s like getting on a taxiway. I’m able to go through & revise it & put myself — click — back into that world.” Stephen King Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good & bad, & see how they do it...Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” — William Faulkner Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” — Tom Clancy Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.” — Anita Shreve Never give up, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“You fail only if you stop writing.” — Ray Bradbury Think positive & keep going, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." — Lao Tzu Something to bear in mind as you’re writing, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” - Oscar Wilde If you pour that love into your writing, #turtlewriters, your story will grow & blossom to entrance & delight your readers! 🙂🐢🍀❤️Good luck with everything! #WritingCommunity

“I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them —without a thought about publication— & only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.” — Anne Tyler Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters!❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” — Samuel Johnson Good luck with making time for both reading & your writing, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

"The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." - Gustave Flaubert Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.” - Anais Nin Which may or may not be good. Sometimes it helps to talk to a friend & see things from another perspective, #turtlewriters! Good luck with whatever you may need it for! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” — Philip Pullman So let's read them or write them, #turtlewriters! Good luck with whichever you do, or both! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“I’m very lucky in that I don’t understand the world yet. If I understood the world, it would be harder for me to write these books.” — Mo Willems Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Find a subject you care about & which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling & seductive element in your style.” — Stephen King Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." -Virginia Woolf Don't let fear of what other people might think hold you back as a writer or in life generally, #turtlewriters! You are your own person with your own story to tell & to live! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” — Sidney Sheldon Think positive, #turtlewriters! Trust yourself, your story & your characters & get that first word written! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury Love your writing & have fun doing it, #turtlewriters! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” — Catherine Drinker Bowen Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scot Wishing you lots of fun, inspiration, creativity & good luck, #turtlewriters! 🍀 ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.” — Victor Hugo Or even multiple worlds! Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity