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“His writer mind kicked in and he thought, This woman could break my heart. I could crash and burn on this woman. I could lose this woman, drink heavily, write profound poems, and die in the gutter of tuberculosis over this woman.” “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story” by Christopher Moore While I don’t necessarily believe…
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“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.” –Janet Frame This is such a beautiful quote from Janet Frame that I knew it was going to be my quote…
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The questions seem simple at first, though their answers are usually obnoxiously complicated and difficult to explain. What inspires you? Where do your ideas come from? How do you think of new things to write? They’re also questions I’ve been asking myself an awful lot lately, especially on days like this when I’m having trouble…
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Happy Friday, everyone! It’s time for another installment of a Flash Fiction Friday, a prompt to throw something together in about five minutes or so inspired by whatever picture I find at the top of the Five Minute Getaway page. One day, I might start mixing it up and doing something other than Five Minute…
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“They fell silent, both immersed in thoughts of what John had gone through. The sun didn’t seem so bright and cheerful anymore.” “Haunted Lake” by Lauralynn Elliott It’s tragedy that brings Rachel to Mist Lake, and it’s tragedy that she finds once she gets there. Haunted Lake tells the story of her escape to a…
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“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 Naturally, it’s nearly every author’s dream to be published. While I’m sure there are a few authors out there who really mean it when they say that they write just…