February 2012
84 posts
“You understood that death doesn’t hurt the dead, it only hurts the living.”
– Mahmoud Darwish (via thepalestineyoudontknow)
“The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald. (via greenkneehighs)
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Writing Prompts are here!
Our Tumblr Community will now regularly post writing exercises.
We have done some research the last a few weeks on how best to do this and have received a lot of great feedback! These are some of things we have come up with: • Prompts will be posted every other day at 6pm! • You can find all of our prompts here: NaNoWriMos Prompts. • There will be a break during November so you can focus on...
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
– Maya Angelou (via misswallflower)
“Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too...”
– Patricia A. McKillip, In The Forests of Serre (via larmoyante)
“Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.”
– My flammable roommate’s fabulous writing professor (via commodore-sparklebutt)
Okay WriMos, I think I've finally worked out most...
I just have to make a few more adjustments to the main page to make sure all the links go to all the right places and then I should have prompts queued up regularly starting by Monday! I’ll post a short info post on regularity and how the tagging and submission blog will work as soon as I get it typed up! :)
Happy Writing!
-Camille
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
– Alfred Hitchcock (via thegirlandherbooks)
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valswei reblogged your post: writingsober reblogged your photo: I see this…
“You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or...
“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via cwestdesign)
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trickystick asked: I got through the later stages of NaNoWriMo tipsy :) I was downing the white wine like a classy mofo. The best part is coming back to read and not remembering that you wrote much of it.
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell (via thechocolatebrigade)
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The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, by Patricia C. Wrede
1. Dealing With Dragons (pdf)
Take one bored princess. Make her the seventh daughter in a very proper royal family. Have her run away. Add one powerful, fascinating, dangerous dragon. The Princess Cimerone has never met anyone (or anything) like the dragon Kazul. But then, she’s never...
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nwroth asked: I used to write in college drunk - unfortunately, it was usually essays for school. This was quite hilarious for me when I went back to edit. I don't usually write drunk recreationally, though.
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nikinapalm asked: every time i've had to write for a class (stories i mean, not essays) i've done it drunk because that's the only time i get good ideas! also i write stories that are SO FULL OF FEELS when i drink oh god, make all the people cry
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writingsober reblogged your photo: I see this quote a lot but I personally have never…
never not reblog because this is literally one of my most favorite quotes ever it is the inspiration for my username it is in the info box on my blog it is everything and i will probably one day get it inked on my skin even though i have never written drunk before i wrote a whole poem based on this quote...
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bazztyler asked: Drunk writing can be interesting. Sometimes you end up writing things you´d have never thought about if you were sober. The important thing in Hemingway's quote, I think, is the "edit sober" bit. You can write as much as you want/need when you're drunk, but you have to edit it later, sober. You have to. Most of my drunk writing go straight to the garbage when I wake up....
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pa11idam0rs asked: i actually write drunk quite a bit (not that i'm an alcoholic). there's something about it though that helps to release my thoughts. i come up with better lines, the words flow together and don't feel quite so choppy. i feel less restricted. ^_^ hope this helps.
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Anonymous asked: Yesss. Try writing drunk at least once. Sometimes it's shit. Other times you strike gold.
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...”
– Sylvia Plath (via davidkarpsnipple)
“Start out perfect and don’t change a thing. Always accentuate your best features...”
– Miss Piggy (via pussybow)
Miss Piggy is and always will be my patronus.
(via sourcedumal)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
“I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from...”
– Sylvia Plath, written in 1949 at age 17 (via cottonbutts)
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise...”
– Theodore I. Rubin (via paperlover)
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Happy President's Day! Who is your favorite...
If you aren’t in America, you can go for your favorite leader from your country.
“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space,...”
– Stephen Hawking (via crownedrose)
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;...”
– W. B. Yeats - The second coming (via justabucketlist)
“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to...”
– Lemony Snicket (via travalicious)
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
– Lao Tzu (via inwaterbewater)
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that...”
– Virginia Woolf (via atomiclanterns)
“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will...”
– A Bronx Tale
I really love that quote for some reason.
(via fyeahlilbitoeverything)
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
– Stephen King (via misswallflower)
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel,...”
– Angela Carter (via kerryquotesquotes)
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pa11idam0rs answered your question: With the reminder that NaNo starts up again in 7.5 months, have you done any planning for your novel yet?
can we cheat and plan it out now so its not so bad for novembe?
You can definitely start planning before November. The key is to not start writing until November 1st.
Billy ______________
Plan away! It’s not cheating as long as you don’t...
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A quick question about writing prompts?
We’ve talked about doing writing prompts and posting your work for people to check out-
We just have a but of a technical question… The prompts would still be posted to this blog, but for displaying your work we’ve got two options: 1) We can flood this blog with all of the awesome writing you send us, OR 2) We can create a second blog to post them to.
Which do you think is a better...
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With the reminder that NaNo starts up again in 7.5...
I’ve got a title so far Young Mutants in Love. I don’t really have anything else yet, but I think it’s a great title to start from. (Especially since I still don’t have a title for last year’s novel.)
All my best,
Billy
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I haven’t started any official planning yet, but I’m always running through ideas in my head. Every once in a...
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the...”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via sandyohstar)