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Writer—health advocate—earth/human rights activist—traveller—artist—observer—journalist—poet—purveyor of love & lover of life with all its challenges, inc. CRPS

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14 Nov 1989391634904105155

“Your writing is art—it doesn’t need a prescription to succeed… The best writing happens when a writer is discovering what happens as they’re creating… We can advance the process… but to do that effectively, we must be engaged in discovering ourselves.” https://buff.ly/1gVMzol

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12 Nov 1988666859487441145

“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

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11 Nov 1988304472510988482

“Readers connect to a protagonist’s motivations like it’s a north star within the scene. They enable us to contextualize what we’re seeing, help us understand why it matters and get us invested in the outcome.” How to Write Sharp Action Scenes #writingtips

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How to write sharp action scenes

Along with physical description, clear, sharp action scenes have become a bit of a lost art in the manuscripts t...

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7 Nov 1986854920490791011

“The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.” ~ Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

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6 Nov 1986492531652067364

“Write toward that moment when your #characters surprise you… when the characters are so real that readers will want to follow them—the Robert Frost no surprise for the #writer, no surprise for the reader… It has to be what’s organic to the characters.” https://buff.ly/3NTe6m0

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5 Nov 1986130151382393335

Autumn stories
Beautifully lost
Among the trees

~ Joe F, @frghtndmn // #Photography: ‘Komorebi’ By Martin Rak, @martas_ / https://buff.ly/465XUDP #haiku #vss365

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4 Nov 1985767755111338429

“Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.” ~ J. B. Priestley #writingcommunity

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