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“Write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all of those people who are not brave enough to try to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves.”
If you need some extra encouragement today, let the words of 2012 Pep Talker Kate DiCamillo remind you that you are brave, and your creative projects are worthwhile. Read the full pep talk here.
Shoutout to NaNoWriMo participant yieng for creating the beautiful image!
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Are you ready to read the first excerpt from KINGDOM OF ASH? Head to one of these links now!
INCASE YOU HAVENT SEEN THIS AND YOU WANT THE TEARS
"You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?"- Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
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Writing is not always writing.
Writing is being on the train and mentally seeing your OCs stumble into other people, or flinching away from the germ-ridden handrails, or sleeping on each others’ shoulders.
Writing is hearing a song on the radio and watching one of your scenes play out to the lyrics.
Writing is laying on your floor or sitting by your computer and spending hours collaging newspaper clippings or pictures or people or plants together and making something that is completely, uniquely, your story.
Writing is drawing your characters in your notebooks, and making tea only your one, picky character would drink, and writing an open letter to all your characters just to remind them you love them.
Writing is moodboards, and playlists, and crafts, and asks, and prompts, and pictures, and memories, and you.
So never think that just because you’re not putting words on a page, you’re not a real writer. Writing is something that follows you everywhere, beyond the word document, and beyond the screen.
Because writing isn’t something you do. It’s something you are.
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Reasons I could never be the protagonist of a book
I spend the whole book silently yelling don’t do that, that’s foolish, you are going to end up dead. The book would start with a creepy cave and I would be like nope that’s sketchy. I would refuse to go in, and there you go that’s the end of the book. Also, you know that point when someone tells you to stay put. Well I actually would cause I don’t have a death wish like half of these characters. And then some main characters can be so overdramatic about guys. I’d be like yeah relationships are a lot of work and like you are way too clingy considering we just left so bye. I would probably just spend the whole book sassing everyone cause that’s basically what I do while reading. And that’s my rant for today on why I am unfit to be a main character in a book.
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