I am willing to invest in learning skills to make my writing better.
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LizRiceWrites
@lizricewrites.bsky.social
Writer- current project is a contemporary middle grade novel in verse. I'm always working on picture books. The beach is my happy place.
Chill Subs has another spreadsheet with hundreds of submission opportunities! docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #SubOp
Where to submit your writing (Aug 17, 2026)
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I am willing to challenge myself to try new things with my writing.
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either."~~ Meg Cabot
I am willing to write regularly and not wait to be inspired.
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten, --happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another ~~ - Brenda Ueland
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” ~~ Stephen King, On Writing
I am a keen observer of the world around me, and it shows in my writing.
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The greatest masterpiece starts with a kernel of an idea, and my ideas are awesome!
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The poet I aspire to be already exists within me. #Writer #Versenovels
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” ― Robert Frost
Now that I’m back from a second maternity leave (thank you, Minnesota’s Paid Leave Act!), I’m eager to find my next favorite story. So, in honor of my son’s first birthday tomorrow(!), @fluxbooks.bsky.social and @jollyfishpress.bsky.social are opening to submissions! 🎉🎉🎉 1/2
"Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell." ~~ Twyla Tharp
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“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”― Cornelia Funke
It doesn't have to be perfect to be powerful.
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L'Engle -
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection." --Anais Nin
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We're thrilled to see two upcoming #SerendipityLit titles, VIOLET AND THE FROST KING and BEFORE HE WAS THURGOOD, on @publisherswkly.bsky.social 's preview of Fall 2026 picture books! Full list: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #PictureBooks #BookSky #BookPreview #UpcomingReleases
Fall 2026 Children's Preview: Picture Books
Innovative mash-ups, series-launching fantasy adventures, and exciting remixes of familiar classics feature in this season’s offerings for young readers.
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I LOVED reading all the Moomin books when I was a child - in honor of Tove Jansson - I shall read one today!
EdwardMO@emo777.bsky.social · 2w agoTove Jansson #botd, the Finnish writer and artist, is best known for creating the Moomins, a family of whimsical, hippo-like trolls. She wrote and illustrated nine Moomin books, three picture books, and a comic strip, which gained international fame...
I know that I have everything I need to bring my stories to life.
"It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story."- Frank Yerby