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What is a Story? An Autopsy of a Tale – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Jan. 7, 2025
Plotting Your Book: What is a Story? An Autopsy of a TaleWhat is a story? An idea or a setting or a character alone do not make a story. A fictional story is all of those and more. READ MORE The Best Guide to Writing Your Novel! You dream of being a published author. You don’t…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author Winston S. Churchill
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to…
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Understand Story Structure to Develop Your Novel Idea – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Dec. 31, 2024
Plot Your Book: Understand Story Structure to Develop Your Novel IdeaWhen writers come up with a great story idea but don’t know how to develop it, usually the problem is one of plotting. For 2025, each issue of our newsletter will explore how to plot your story. READ MORE Free Writing, Self-Publishing, Book Promotion Guides I’m…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author Rebecca Solnit
A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another. The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where…
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To Write is to Realize My Destiny – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Dec. 24, 2024
Writing Motivation: To Write is to Realize My Destiny Writing is your destiny. It’s more than just a pattern in your life. It is reaching for your full potential; it is those moments you feel most self-empowered. READ MORE The Best Guide to Promoting Your Book! My book 7 Minutes a Day to Promoting Your…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author Lloyd Alexander
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it. …Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn’t the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn’t there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? I decided that adventure was the…
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Writing is My Way of Life – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Dec. 17, 2024
Writing Motivation: Writing is My Way of LifeBegin each day by reminding yourself who you are: You are a writer, and writing is a way of life for you. Maybe you’ll need to scribble that on a piece of paper and tape it to your bathroom mirror so you read it every morning when you…
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Great Writing Quotes by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. …when a sentence is…
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My Words can Light the Way for Someone Else on a Dark Path – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Dec. 10, 2024
Writing Motivation: My Words can Light the Way for Someone Else on a Dark Path Even if your book never changes the world – let alone influences other authors in its genre – your writing still can make a difference just by affecting the lives of a few or even of a lone reader. READ…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author Joan Didion
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. As it happens, I am still committed to the…
