“Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.” ― Jincy Willett Don't fear your blank page, #turtlewriters. Think of it as the portal to a glorious adventure, activated by the first word you write down. Who knows where it will whisk you off to!🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood However slowly you may write, your words all add up over time. So keep writing, #turtlewriters! Keep submitting! Never underestimate the power of your finished story to change readers' lives.🙂🐢🍀❤️#WritingCommunity

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.” ― Oscar Wilde I can relate to this - can you? Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence...he writes, will ask himself at least 4 questions: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?” - George Orwell #turtlewriters🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

“Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.” — Esther Freud If you haven't got a best time, grab whenever you can, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your writing! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

🎉🤠🐎I'm thrilled my Weird Western (with a touch of Steampunk) short story ‘The Curse of Rattlesnake Ridge’ is published by Ps and Qs Publishing in their wonderful anthology WYRD WIZARD WEST! 🐎🤠🎉 #WritingCommunity #turtlewriters a.co/d/07J6ioWL

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“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” ― Jodi Picoult Write something, anything, just to get started & break up that white expanse. Good luck,, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process... ...Throw away the manual. Improvise.” – Isabel Allende #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

'...Good story ideas...come...from nowhere, sailing...right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together & make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.' - Stephen King #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.” ― Michael Crichton Think positive & keep revising till it's right! Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.” — John Steinbeck Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.” ― Jane Yolen Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.” ― Louis Sachar #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." - Anne Frank Good luck with your writing, and whatever else you may need it for, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ Love & ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" & there was no wolf behind him.” ― Vladimir Nabokov #turtlewriters🙂🐢#WritingCommunity

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“...There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings & special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” ...It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.” - Haruki Murakami #turtlewriters🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.” ― Stephen King Believe in yourself & anything is possible, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ― Anton Chekhov Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” ❤️❤️❤️ ― Ray Bradbury Write from your heart, always, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.” – Anne Lamott So be brave & write those first words - no-one can read your story until you have written it! Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel Write from your heart, #turtlewriters, & your words will tug at your readers' heartstrings too! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." ~Charles W. Eliot Stay safe in the comfort of your favourite books, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly. – Edgar Rice Burroughs I find this very reassuring, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!” – Ray Bradbury Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity

“There is only one plot — things are not what they seem.” – Jim Thompson That's why writing is so much fun! Good luck with your next session. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀

“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again...” ― E.A. Bucchianeri #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀

"‘Write what you know’...I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards... I know these things...better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.” — Ursula K. Le Guin #turtlewriters 😀🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity