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people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative. ↗

— Chester Elijah Branch

#screenwriting #storytelling #movies

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#writing #music

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#writing #change

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#feminism #inspirational #write #inspirational

Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds toward the final crisis in Act Three. If by Act Two the emotional river isn't spilling over the banks, I reassess the plot so that once the writing is flowing I don't slide into a dry creek. The central character should be struggling to navigate life well into the end of Act One, even if her fiercest antagonist is only from within. ↗

— Patricia Hickman

#outer-banks #southern-fiction #southern-writers #inspirational

It's the witching hour once more- When the Muse comes out to play. He calls me through that magic door- Where galaxies of worlds await! ↗

— Belle Whittington

#indie-authors #indie-books #inspirational #writing #writing-books

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful… everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility. ↗

— James P. Carse

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

When life gives you lemons ~ write about 'em! ↗

— Kimmie Easley

#journey #life #writing #inspirational

Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writing-process #change

Just write it! ↗

— Ted Bell

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