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Another 10 Classic Children’s Anthology Books Worth Revisiting for Halloween Growing up, my Halloween experience wasn’t complete without ghost stories. Long before I could get my hands on horror movies, my Halloween thrills were largely found in books. Little did the parentals...

Like years before, I've curated stories from 10 classic children's anthology horror books. They're perfect for Halloween.

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Happy Halloween!

YouTube video by Biography Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Full Documentary | Biography

Edgar Allan Poe's life story is fascinating. #EdgarAllanPoe #FictionWriters #Authors #Biography #Writing #Writers #WriterSky #Books #Horror #Gothic #DetectiveStories

six word horror story - evil shoes worn by evil baby

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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away - Pablo Picasso

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better - Andre Gide

If you can expand the container you're fishing in, your consciousness, you can get bigger fish - David Lynch

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Light is the most important person in the picture - Claude Monet

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Taking Your Writing Ideas Further With Beat Sheets Looking at structures, or ‘beat sheets’ for stories. And since it’s Halloween, THE HORROR BEAT SHEET Bwwoooowhhooo! 👻

Take a look at this 'Horror Beat Sheet' to see whether the spooky movies you're watching for Halloween follow this pattern in their own ways. And let's see how analyzing these patterns can help us write compelling tales of our own. #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #StoryBeats #Plotting #Fiction

My cat Theo

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I'm not sure, but I haven't gotten too far in it. I just thought it was an interesting subject and well presented.

YouTube video by The New Yorker Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides on Writing | The New Yorker Festival

Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides on Writing - A short video, but a good one. #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #Books #WritingHelp #WritingAdvice #WriterDiscussions

Started reading this book 'Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate'. So far it's spot on. By Anna Bogutskaya. #Books #Reading #Writing #BookSky #WriterSky

YouTube video by Toronto Public Library Sheila Heti | Appel Salon | April 25, 2022

"Whenever we encounter students of writing, it's so hard to teach them to care, to care over and over, about each draft, each word, what something looks like on the page, how something comes together--the assemblage of a book." Writer Souvankham Thammavongsa in conversation with Sheila Heti. #Write

guy in a suit with an exploding head

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a rainbow of boots

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YouTube video by The Paris Review Sheila Heti’s First Time

"I put stories in envelopes on the subway... and hoped that... And I mailed them to people out of the phone book. I just wanted to feel like somebody was reading them--like it wasn't... That there was a possibility they had an audience, even if it was one random person..." #ParisReview #Writing

Halloween

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YouTube video by HISTORY The Frightening Pagan History of Halloween | Full Special

It's Spooky Season. Let's look at the #Pagan #History of #Halloween

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. - Stephen King

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YouTube video by The Second Story How To Write Any Story - Why Pacing Is Everything

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All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Disarm the audience with comedy, then punch them in the gut with drama, when they least expect it. - Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved - Sigmund Freud

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"In sum, we shall see how the peculiar properies of animal-naming stopped language from going entirely to the dogs." Ben Parsons, "Introducing Medieval Animal Names" (@uniwalespress.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social)

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