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‘You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.’ - Beverly Sills So take a chance, have courage & go for it, #turtlewriters! You can do this! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” ― Nikki Giovanni Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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⚓🎉⚓I'm thrilled Dragon Soul Press has accepted my short story, 'Hanging Johnny' for their LURED INTO THE DEEP anthology to be released 30th May, 2025. ⚓🎉⚓ Pre-order link coming soon.

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‘There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.’ – Beverly Sills So grit your teeth when the going gets tough, #turtlewriters, & keep taking one step after another because the view will be so worthwhile when you do get there! Good luck! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Believe in yourself, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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'The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.' ― Stephen King Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters! Take care & stay safe, 🐢🍀❤️ ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” - Victor Hugo Give your readers a chance to love your stories, #turtlewriters, in spite of your self doubts. Write, edit & publish them! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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"In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities." — János Arnay So write your story, #turtlewriters! Love it, and if you follow your dreams, nothing is impossible! 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP!🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

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“My aim in constructing sentences is to make the sentence utterly easy to understand, writing what I call transparent prose. I’ve failed dreadfully if you have to read a sentence twice to figure out what I meant.” — Ken Follett Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.” ― Don Roff You don't always have to be quite that brutal, though! Good luck with your revising/editing, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity

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‘But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep.’ – Romain Rolland Embrace inspiration, wherever it comes from, & write that story, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” —Orson Welles For me, a happy ending is an upbeat one which leaves me with some kind of hope for the future. Good luck pinning down the right ending for your story, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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‘The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.’ - Maya Angelou Of course, there’s nothing to say you can’t achieve both. Good luck following your dreams, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“What your characters observe—or don’t—can be effective red herrings.” —Jane K. Cleland So have lots of fun with your writing & keep your readers hooked at the same time, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 Good luck! #WritingCommunity

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“The glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters.” —Tony Hoagland Good luck with writing & editing your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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‘There is freedom in being a writer & writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, & then simply doing it.’ - Natalie Goldberg #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“There’s never been a text written that didn’t need editing.” —David Ku So take heart, #turtlewriters! It may be a challenging mountain to climb, but the views from the top are awesome & the feeling of success exhilarating! Just keep going, one step at a time! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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The Double Helix Conundrum, a #distopiansci-fi #shortread from @blackharepress.bsky.social books2read.com/Helix-Merrick

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“Scenes are capsules in which compelling characters undertake significant actions in a vivid and memorable way that allows the events to feel as though they are happening in real time.” —Jordan E. Rosenfeld Good luck with writing & editing your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀

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“I was still water, held by my surroundings. I am now a river, carving my own path.” ― Scott Stabile Don’t let others stifle or cage you in with their negativity. You have great potential, #turtlewriters! Be brave & follow your dreams. 🙂🐢❤️🍀 Good luck! #WritingCommunity

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The Island of No Return by Rosetta Yorke books2read.com/Yorke-Island-No-Return On an abandoned island steeped in death & madness, 3 students’ quest for fame becomes a desperate struggle to escape #HORROR #SUPERNATURAL #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙 #bookblogger #bookpromo #tbrpile #blackharepress

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“Dialogue helps to create original characters and move the plot along. If it isn’t doing either of those things, it probably should be cut.” —James Scott Bell Good luck with writing & editing your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“So when you come across an explanation of the character’s emotion, simply cut the explanation. If the emotion is still shown, then the explanation wasn’t needed. If the emotion isn’t shown, then rewrite the passage so that it is.” - Renni Browne/Dave King #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“There are only two or three human stories, & they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” —Willa Cather Your voice & life experiences will make your story unique & your characters engaging to your readers. So dig deep, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity

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“Trust in your truth, & in your courage to share it with the world. Your truth can help many people & transform many lives.” ― Scott Stabile Be true to yourself, #turtlewriters, & your characters will tell your truth to your readers through their story. Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“You can’t relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself & triumphs but only after a struggle.” —Timothy Dalton Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity

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A Short History of the Future Out 6th March, 2025, @northodoxpress.bsky.social A collection of 42 #ScienceFiction #ShortStories, with retro themes (clue in the the title and the cover!) - spaceships, aliens, robots, etc. but with all new (Liam Hogan) spin. www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

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“The skill of a skilled writer tricks you into thinking that there is no skill.” —Dwight V. Swain Good luck with achieving this in your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

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“Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time.” ~ Scott Stabile So don't be afraid to be you, #turtlewriters. Tell the story you want to tell in your own unique way. Someone has to be the next trailblazer - why not you? 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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🔥 Pyre Magazine🔥 is back! This spring: ✨ New submission dates & guidelines ✨ Fresh editorial talent ✨ A new home here on Bluesky Social The flames are rising. Follow for updates & announcements—let’s ignite the fires of lit. #PyreMagazine #DarkLit #SpeculativeFiction #writers

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“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken & begin to breathe. Imagine, if you like, Frankenstein’s monster on its slab. Here comes lightning, not from the sky but from a humble paragraph of English words.” - Stephen King #turtlewriters🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity

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“If you can take a little slice of the world and a little piece of dirt and really focus on details, you can drive large, seemingly spectacular movements.” —David Baldacci Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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Huge thanks to the wonderful Editors & Read team at @blackharepress.bsky.social for creating such a gorgeous, atmospheric cover 🖤 & sending my horror story The Island of No Return out into the world! I'm beyond thrilled! This is my wildest dream come true! 🖤 books2read.com/Yorke-Island-No-Return

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“A tremendous number of possibly good & even brilliant novels & short stories never get read beyond the first few paragraphs or pages by agents and editors. Why? Simple: The stories don’t begin in the right place.” —Les Edgerton Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.” - Francois Mauriac When you love a book, whether you're reading or writing it, you experience that miracle first-hand, #turtlewriters. Savour every moment! Take care & stay safe, my friends. 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“As you go through your list of things to do for the day...remind yourself...you are a cool, hot, unique & wonderful human being, as loving as you are lovable, & that your place in this world makes many, many, many people smile...you rock!” - Scott Stabile #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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"No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books." - Romain Rolland Never underestimate the power of your writer's voice to move, illuminate & inspire your readers! You're awesome! Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters!! ((hugs)), 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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"To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one." ~ Chinese Saying #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

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“Don’t read other people’s work forever thinking: ‘I’m better / as good / not as good as this writer.’ They couldn’t write your stories, and you can’t write theirs. You can only write your own.” - Paul Magrs #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” – Stephen King Good luck with your writing! Take care & stay safe,#turtlewriters #writers 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

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'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity #turtlewriters

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