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158d

There are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones.
Orson Scott Card

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155d

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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133d

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, France, on June 29, 1900.
The Little Prince was written and illustrated by him during exile in the United States and first published there in 1943; today it is one of the most translated works of fiction in the world.

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153d

Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre’s Write Highlands Bursary offers fully funded non-residential places on creative writing courses on life writing, fiction, & poetry for writers living in the Highland Council area. You do not need to be a published writer.

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Photo: a dark and dramatic Scottish highland landscape

Text: Write Highlands Bursary

Fully-funded non-residential places on creative writing courses for writers living in the Highland Council area

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131d

Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 — August 9, 1962) worked in a tower-clock factory and later in bookshops before becoming famous. During his bookshop years, he educated himself by reading literature and philosophy.

One central theme of his books is the search for the true self. Again and again, his characters try to find authenticity, spiritual balance, and freedom from false roles.

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151d

Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 – February 1945) for her thirteenth birthday received a diary. She began to write about her life, the people around her, short stories — even a novel.

She dreamed of becoming a writer.

War left us only her diary.

It stole the girl, the books she never wrote, and the life she should have had.

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151d

If I had known then what I know now I could have saved so much time and gotten isolated and weird so much sooner 😜😂

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Me, in High School:
"I'm going to hecome a writer!"
My guidance counselor:
"So, you've decided to become isolated and weird."

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131d

My weekly roundup of #publishing News #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up.
Productive Creativity
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A Childs hands covered in paint. Messy Creative Fun!

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149d

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 — July 1, 1896) was a preacher’s daughter, a teacher, a wife, and a mother of seven.

In 1852, her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a sensation: about 10,000 copies were sold in the first week, and 300,000 before the end of the year.

Thirteen years later, #slavery was abolished in the US. One book did not end slavery by itself but #Stowe showed millions of readers the human pain behind it.

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117d

Now I want Eldritch Horror, I want to glimpse the infinite complexity that will turn to madness... As long as I don't have to get of the couch and put on pants 😂

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Post by bramblesand

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s
really such a shame.

An ant doesn't start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find
it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming
monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human
does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like
a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable
distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of
mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this
moment, and then...

It's an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It
cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it
supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is
for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do
anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world
matters.

This is madness.

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133d

“I must not grammar. Grammar is the mind-killer. Grammar is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my grammar." 😂

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Four panel meme frim the Dune movie where Paul is being tested with pain.

1: Remove the hand from the box and you will die.
2: What's in the box?
3: A misspelled word in your published book.
4: *Paul clutching his hand and crying*

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122d

With apologies to all the poetry lovers out there, but... 😂

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Post by LilJonson

I have bad anxiety and one point I got prescribed Xanax. Without the anxiety, all of a sudden I felt like a different person. I was doing things I never did, like I started writing poetry. thats when I got off the meds because I'd rather have crippling anxiety than write poetry.

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58d

Just a small update to whom it may concern, @FandaSin I'm looking at you... 😊

I have started the putting the final touches on The Last Philosopher: Part Two. Proofreading, adding images, and avoiding making new glorious mistakes 😂

If you want to be notified when it's out, go here: https://books2read.com/author/nick-east/subscribe/1/2326916/

1€ ebook of Part One: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA

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107d

If there's a better way I'm listening 😂

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Person: how does writing work?
Writer: well you type & you delete. You rethink. Then you do 187 min of
research & correct it. You reread & wonder if you have a grasp of English.
Then you revise
Person: then you're done with the book?
Writer: then you move to the next sentence

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86d

He will outlast us, churning out his books,
advocate and historian, his prose
earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,
its cheap mementos from the land he made…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)

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AT THE SCOTT EXHIBITION, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
Iain Crichton Smith

He will outlast us, churning out his books,
advocate and historian, his prose
earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,
its cheap mementos from the land he made.
Walking the room together in this merciless
galaxy of manuscripts and notes
I am exhausted by such energy.
I hold your hand for guidance. Over your brow
the green light falls from tall and narrow windows.
His style is ignorant of this tenderness,
the vulnerable angle of your body
below the Raeburn with its steady gaze.

It was all in his life, not in his books
‘Oh I am dying, take me home to Scotland
where I can breathe though that breath were my last.’
He limped through an Edinburgh being made anew.
He worked his way through debts, past a dead wife.
My dear, we love each other in our weakness
as he with white grave face diminishing through
stroke after stroke down to the unpaid room.
We know what we are but know not what we will be.
I tremble in this factory of books.
What love he must have lost to write so much.

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100d

The worst is when I can remember having an idea, but not what it was 😂

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Photo of a man looking like he's in a gameshow.
Me: I don't need to write this brilliant idea for my story I just had down, I'll remember

...

and then I didn't.

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55d

Anyone else exhausted by BOTH the AI slop and the epidemic of accusing things you hate of being AI? Me too! I was too, so this month’s podcast is on that topic: You Sure You’re Hunting Real Witches?

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https://writingafflictionpodcast.com/ai-witch-hunt/

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I usually prefer the socially unacceptable forms, but I'll allow it 😜😁

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"Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public."
Paul Coelho

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Disagree 🤔 I mean it would be easier without all that writing but it's also the only requirement for being a writer 😁

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Post by Andrew Nadeau

me: I’m a writer
him: what do you write?
me: haha, tha—that’s not how it works

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Personally I like to edit in new and improved typos with every round of editing 😁 Even grammar has to 'Evolve or Die' in this new fast paced world 😜😂

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Post by Tahra Seplowin

Shout-out to the typos that make it through three rounds of content edits, copyedits, and two rounds of proofreading. I am inspired by your dedication and tenacity.

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May 22 is International Sherlock Holmes Day — the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created the world’s most famous detective.

Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a real physician who could read a patient’s profession, habits, and character from tiny details: a walk, an accent, worn sleeves, mud on shoes.

Doyle later tried to kill Holmes at Reichenbach Falls… but readers refused to let him go.

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RE: https://mastodon.art/@NickEast_IndieWriter/117273896524163336

For anyone interested after a number of suggestions my recommendation is...

Payhip 🎉 It seems to be a lot like having a writer page but without a lot of the hassle.

Personally, I don't like subscriptions and wouldn't buy anything from one, but if that's your jam I recommend Ko-Fi 😁

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I mean I really thought no one loved the spectacluar Plains of Procrastination in the super-comfy Lands of Laziness more than me, but I guess this little hobbit is going on an adventure 😂

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