Rosetta Yorke Author

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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!

A tiny yacht with two figures on board, silhouetted against a pink and peach dawn.

“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

Rolling grass-covered hills, like billowing folds in material.

“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

Pale brown & sea green textured background.

“…'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

A fantasy castle on a rocky peak overlooking a silver river.

“…Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires.”
― Stephen King

#turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”
- e.e. cummings

Love your story, #turtlewriters, & then it will be *true* for your readers! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

A small brown songbird with a white breast, perched on a slender spring foliage branch.

“All stories have to at least try to explain some small portion of the meaning of life.”
— Gene Weingarten

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity #amwriting

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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
— Jack Kerouac

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

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'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️

Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity

Yes, there's nothing quite like it, is there. 🙂🐢

Shades of blue water, like deep in the sea.

“The best thing...is to loosen my grip on my pen & let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance...Each word tugs another one along, one idea another...that is how books, governments & revolutions are made...how Nature created her species.”
Machado de Assis

#turtlewriters #WritingCommunity

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“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.”
― Vera Nazarian

#turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

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“In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.”
- Kimberly Black

Hope this makes you smile, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your writing.❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

Orange flames burning black wood.

“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Think positive, and believe in your story, #turtlewriters! It may just change someone's life for the better! Good luck!❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

So true, Forest. 🥰

As I like to say, "There is no one way to write. There is only one way for YOU to write. Find that, and the rest will settle itself in time."

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“We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

So let your imagination take you to the most amazing places, #turtlewriters! Good luck!❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

A midnight blue sky peppered with tiny stars.

“I think maybe today a poem I hope
after breakfast I start trying
pulling it out of my own gut
mostly by force”
― John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas), Epopoeia And the Decay of Satire

Poetry or fiction, writing isn't easy to do, #turtlewriters! Good luck with yours!❤️🙂🐢🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity

Two seeds floating away from a heart-shaped dandelion clock.

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
- G. K. Chesterton

Don't forget to raise the stakes in your story, #turtlewriters! What does your MC personally risk losing if they fail in their current undertaking? Good luck with your writing.❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity