April 2013
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How to end your novel →
writeworld:
nanowrimodiary:
The Dos and Don’ts By James V. Smith Jr.
Don’ts
Don’t introduce any new characters or subplots. Any appearances within the last 50 pages should have been foreshadowed earlier, even if mysteriously.
Don’t describe, muse, explain or philosophize. Keep description to a minimum, but maximize action and conflict. You have placed all your charges. Now, light the fuse...
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February 2013
4 posts
“ When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the...”
– C. S. Lewis (via seabois)
“But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model...”
– Zadie Smith (via lyras)
“but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight…”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sonnet XLIII” (via litverve)
January 2013
6 posts
WriteWorld: Traits of Effective Writing →
writeworld:
Always keep the following traits in mind when you write. If you follow them, you will do your best work.
Stimulating Ideas: Good writing includes important ideas, accurate information, and interesting details. It also has a clear message or purpose.
Logical Organization: Good writing is well…
“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls (via quote-book)
“I want to feel my life. I want to stop agreeing to things I don’t really want.”
– Living Out Loud, 1998 (via kari-shma)
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“Calvin: Look, a dead bird!
Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window.
Calvin:...”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: There’s Treasure Everywhere
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“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.”
– Bill Watterson
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“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
– Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
December 2012
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“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his...”
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“Not all who wander are lost.”
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“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast...”
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November 2012
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“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”
– Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request (via larmoyante)
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“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
– Ram Dass (via larmoyante)
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“1. When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing...”
– 10 Rules of Writing by Zadie Smith (via pavorst)
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“I live in my dreams—that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not...”
– Herman Hesse, Demian (via emotional-algebra)
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“Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!” Sophie said. “I refuse to...”
– Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
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“Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’
Seeing it was a...”
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I just died laughing. Really. A book like this one is what we call ‘rare’ book.,
October 2012
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“I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (via creatingaquietmind)
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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via kari-shma)
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“I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz
or arrow of carnations...”
– Pablo Neruda (via seabois)
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“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that...”
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“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come...”
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“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A...”
– Samuel Johnson (via writingquotes)
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“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it’s to imagine what...”
– Bell Hooks (via writingquotes)
September 2012
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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via phytos)
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“He suddenly recalled from Plato’s Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via honeyforthehomeless)
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