Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookChallenge
5/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
4/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
3/20
Today’s #Writer food for thought:
Expect the unexpected. Live in the moment. Take nothing for granted.
The author that famously hid her manuscripts beneath her sofa cushions got that manuscript published, and Gone With the Wind became one of the most acclaimed novels of its day. #AmWriting
Someone just asked me for writing tips, and my gut level response was "all writing advice is fake, just read books you like and write as much as you can and eventually something will be good" but then I thought about it and I had some actual advice!
1. Read! Your work! Out loud!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
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#BookChallenge
2/20
Do you all float down here?
Who we are: Southern Writers exists to foster powerful connections between writers, hold discussions and challenges, and to promote and uplift writers through inspirational content.
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90 independent bookstores for you to follow and shop with and more keep getting added. If you were planning on buying books this holiday season, start here.
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Thanks for the warm welcome, y’all! The air is fresher here… I can breathe!
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“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
This was probably my most viral tweet. I've seen it pop up in a lot of quote aggregators, sometimes attributed to a wonderful but definitely not-me filmmaker.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
1/20
Some will think that 500 is a lot of books; other people read that many before breakfast. Luckily it’s not a race. But I do find *counting* the things fun. So: I made sure I read authors covering the whole alphabet, from Achebe to Zweig. The most common surname was Smith (3: Ali, Dodie, Zadie), with runners-up Brontë (3: points deducted for being sisters) and Wolf/Wolff/Woolf (3: points deducted for being spelled differently). The most common first names were Helen (5) and William (5). The most common initial was J (4: J.D., J.G., J.L., J.M. (Give yourself a point for each author you recognise)). All in all, I read 353 authors. I read most books by William Shakespeare (alright, plays and poems) (39), followed by 8 books each by Dianne Wynne Jones, Dorothy L. Sayers and Muriel Spark. Alan Garner in fifth place with 6 books. 255 were by men, 245 by women. I made sure I read books from every year in this and the previous century. My most read century was the 20th (255 books), the most read decade the 2010s (79 books), and the most read year 2021 (19 books). I only read books by authors from 28 countries, with the UK responsible for a whopping 272. Then USA (95), Denmark (48), Ireland (13), France (10), Italy (7), Germany (6), Japan (6), Sweden (6), Norway (5), Australia (4), Russia/USSR (4), Canada (3), Austria (3), Mexico (2), Dominica (2), Finland (2), and one each from Argentina, Belgium, Bohemia/Czech Republic, China, Colombia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa and South Korea (4 easy points available here for guessing the authors from Argentina, Bohemia, Columbia and New Zealand). I read 1 book in German, 1 in Swedish, lots in Danish, and over 400 in English.
7 years ago I started reading again after having read very little for a long time. I also started posting the books on Insta: the first one on 17 Nov 2017. By the end of the year I had read 6 books, the following year I read 36. Then I sped up. Yesterday I finished book no. 500.
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“There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.” - Robert Penn Warren
Writer Quotes Challenge: repost or reply to this with your favorite literary cutdown.
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It’s recently been made clear that we should read more.
“Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”- Fannie Flagg
Today’s #WritingChallenge: what events has your main character overcome? How do they impact that character?
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— forward. The fear of the unknown can be a major factor in why so many writers never take that chance.
Set your mind instead on what incredible adventures may await you on that journey. New opportunities, challenges, and friends to be made.
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
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Today’s #Writing lesson comes from the words of the great William Faulkner.
Many writers are walking along
the proverbial shoreline, afraid to take that next step —
“Read, read, read. Read everything -trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” - William Faulkner
Always look at things from a positive perspective. Whenever I have multiple projects on hand, it’s mostly because I need to switch perspectives before I become overloaded. I’m invigorated whenever I return to the main project.
It’s a good thing! It means you’re very creative and that you’re indulging multiple voices and points of view.
Commit to the characters speaking loudest at the moment…or cross-pollinate back and forth between stories if that’s the way you work best.
