April 2012
March 2012
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The Beginning Writer: Friday's Link Round-up for... →
Every day I scour the internet looking for articles on writing that are helpful to me as a beginning writer. When I find something, I will share it over Twitter.
Each Friday I will post what I call a Link Round-up of all the useful articles I’ve found over the past week.
Once again, I found some really great links this week. Hopefully, a little something for everyone.
“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your literary privelages....”
– Jennifer Weiner (via writingquotes)
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The Beginning Writer: Friday's Link Round-up for... →
Every day I scour the internet looking for articles on writing that are helpful to me as a beginning writer. When I find something, I will share it over Twitter.
Each Friday I will post what I call a Link Round-up of all the useful articles I’ve found over the past week.
Once again, I found some really great links this week. Hopefully, a little something for everyone.
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via writingquotes)
“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world....”
– Julia Cameron (via writingquotes)
“The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely...”
– Virginia Woolf (via writingquotes)
I can sit here for the longest time, just staring...
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The Beginning Writer: Helpful Quotes To Inspire... →
Right now, we’re all in different places on the same path. Some of us are learning about how to start. Some are learning about style and craft. While some of us are further along and just looking for a little motivation.
I can’t know exactly what you need at this moment, but there is a little something for everyone in this post. I decided to share some of the best quotes on writing...
“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I’m reading,...”
– Rebecca Wells (via kerryquotesquotes)
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The Beginning Writer: Different Types Of Point Of... →
When you are just starting a new project, one of the first things you must decide is which point of view to use.
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The Beginning Writer: The Different Types Of Point... →
When you are just starting a new project, one of the first things you must decide is which point of view to use.
Your Brain on Fiction - NYTimes.com →
Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”
– E.L. Doctorow
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I...”
– Robert Benchley
“For me, the writing life doesn’t just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It...”
– –Julia Alvarez, quoted in 1998 in The Writer magazine, with the quotation republished in “Great Writing Tips from 125 Years of The Writer,” in the magazine’s April 2012 issue.
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some...”
– George Orwell, “Why I Write” (via yourwritemind)
“If you have yet to complete your first piece, keep writing. Have faith in...”
– Being Green: What It Means to Be a New Writer « Hugs and Chocolate
“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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