A reader just reached out and told me they stayed up late two nights in a row to finish Blasted Research & "work's going to be rough tomorrow, but it was worth it"

Excuse me while I ugly-cry in happiness😭🥰

https://t.co/glv2erDuhJ

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." ― Joan Didion

Christian Schloe

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"We rarely know where we are going; is a discovery." ― Robert McKee

by Christian Schloe

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"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be." ― Elizabeth Gilbert

by Nixeu

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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." ― Judy Garland

by Cyril Rolando

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See, there is method to the over-plotting-knowing-each-characters-favourite-Beethoven-symphony-etc. I'm just being prepared!

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"And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation" ― Samuel Beckett

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"It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so." ― Carolyn See

by Jim Warren

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"Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love." ― Athol Fugard

by Vladimir Kush

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"In the country of the story the is king." ― Shirley Jackson

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"The best thing about is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it..."

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"I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"There is in the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident." ― H.L. Mencken

by Laura Diehl

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"It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them." ― Truman Capote

Image Great BIG Canvas

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[KURODA Kurota] "Nakittsura ni Hug" such a cute story dealing with the issue of shyness and self doubt. Although the title translates to "A Hug for the Cry Baby" But there you go *shrug*

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