Rosetta Yorke Author

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“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
— Tom Clancy

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

A four leaf clover, wet with rain.

“To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.”
— Anita Shreve

Never give up, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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“You fail only if you stop writing.”
— Ray Bradbury

Think positive & keep going, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

A toffee-coloured retriever lying fast asleep, cuddling a small white teddy bear.

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses."
— Lao Tzu

Something to bear in mind as you’re writing, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity

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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
- Oscar Wilde

If you pour that love into your writing, #turtlewriters, your story will grow & blossom to entrance & delight your readers! 🙂🐢🍀❤️Good luck with everything! #WritingCommunity

What a way to go, though! 🤣🐢

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“I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them —without a thought about publication— & only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.”
— Anne Tyler

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters!❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

A long line of partially-illuminated bookshelves in a shadowy library.

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
— Samuel Johnson

Good luck with making time for both reading & your writing, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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"The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
- Gustave Flaubert

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
- Anais Nin

Which may or may not be good. Sometimes it helps to talk to a friend & see things from another perspective, #turtlewriters! Good luck with whatever you may need it for! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
— Philip Pullman

So let's read them or write them, #turtlewriters! Good luck with whichever you do, or both! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“I’m very lucky in that I don’t understand the world yet. If I understood the world, it would be harder for me to write these books.”
— Mo Willems

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

A blazing yellow and orange fire.

“Find a subject you care about & which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling & seductive element in your style.”
— Stephen King

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

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"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
-Virginia Woolf

Don't let fear of what other people might think hold you back as a writer or in life generally, #turtlewriters! You are your own person with your own story to tell & to live! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
— Sidney Sheldon

Think positive, #turtlewriters! Trust yourself, your story & your characters & get that first word written! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
— Ray Bradbury

Love your writing & have fun doing it, #turtlewriters! Good luck. ❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

*Words have Power* chalked onto a blackboard.

“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”
— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

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“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.”
— Orson Scot

Wishing you lots of fun, inspiration, creativity & good luck, #turtlewriters! 🍀 ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

A woman standing near a huge vertical book that contains a forest landscape, the whole scene set against a dawn sky.

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”
— Victor Hugo

Or even multiple worlds! Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe. ❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

Very true! 🤣
I'm still laughing!

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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
— Frank Herbert

I love this quote! It's how I've always felt about my favourite books! Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe.❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

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“Voice is not just the result of a single sentence or paragraph or page. It’s not even the sum total of a whole story. It’s all your work laid out across the table like the bones & fossils of an unidentified carcass.”
Chuck Wendig

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters!❤️🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity

Yes, I always read it aloud - errors jump out at me that way.
Presumably you do too?

Planets and stars in a red, blue and purple universe

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
— David Foster Wallace

❤️🙂🐢 Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ((hugs)) Take care & stay safe.

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“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
— Elmore Leonard

Good luck with your writing/editing, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.”
— Allen Ginsberg

❤️🙂🐢 Just love your characters & tell your story! Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! #WritingCommunity

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“Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.”
-Meg Rosoff

#turtlewriters #WritingCommunity

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"Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head."
- Mike Rich

Good luck with your writing & editing, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“…'As she walked up the alley, her polyester workout pants sounded like windshield wipers swishing back & forth.' Cadence, onomatopoeia, the poetry of language... Learn all that you can about how to bring sound into your work.”
- Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

#turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity