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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
Writers finishing their first draft vs Writers editing
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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
This has been a hard year for me to not be able to get a new pet. All you people with your puppies and kittens. How dare you. How very dare you. The least you can do is let me live through you by posting pics here.
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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
The neat thing about writing an entire book, is that after you've finished, you immediately forget how to write an entire book.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but delete that ellipsis and use an em dash instead.
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15 Jul 2020
They will have to pry the Oxford comma out of my cold, dead hand.
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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
Pay close attention to those who don’t clap when you win.
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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." Isaac Asimov #writerslife #amwriting
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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
“Poetry is life distilled.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks
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Readers can't resist turning pages when characters are facing tough choices. Use these 5 keys to weave moral dilemmas into your stories—and watch your fiction climb to new heights. hubs.ly/H0qPMQ80
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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
27 May 2020
Although it’s important to realistically assess your skill level, what’s more important is having the guts and grit to keep at it, keep learning, keep improving. Talent isn’t what ultimately matters in this game. #writetip
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“Literature is a process of producing beautiful lies that tell more truth than any facts.” —Julian Barnes #amwriting
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If you don’t check Twitter for two days and come back, everyone’s already joking about a controversy you’ve never heard of. Suddenly every tweet is like “Buzz Lightyear is NOT misogynistic, here’s proof” and it’s a picture of a wheelbarrow and Danny DeVito with 40,000 likes
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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened." Kazuo Ishiguro
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers—they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write. — Sinclair Lewis
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19 May 2020
"Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth."--Paula Danziger #amwriting
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Video's up! Imposter syndrome sucks - BUT YOU DON'T! Check out my 10 tips for beating imposter syndrome and telling it to stfu!!!!! youtu.be/IAICm4tycxs #writingcommunity
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Despite all my rage I have still written less than a page
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15 May 2020
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When you’re researching for a book & accidentally click a YouTube link demonstrating how to summon a demon. “NOOOO!!! ... ... Well. It’s research. What could it hurt?” #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amreading #amresearching #writerslife #writerproblems
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📚Carrie is on sabbatical 🦊☕️ retweeted
#BookBoost #Thursday Let's show some #love and #boost morale. Say Hi, post a link to your #book or tell us about your #WIP, #follow your #FellowWriters, and ReTweet for others to take part. #WritingCommunity #writerscommunity #5amwritersclub #writersnetwork
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