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June 29, 2013

"I am afraid of getting older… I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a..."

“I am afraid of getting older… I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free… I want, I want to think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.’”

- Sylvia Plath,written in 1949 at age 17 (via loureedsheroin)
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I'm in the process of writing my first to-be-sold book. My boyfriend has about 3% belief in me that I'll ever get anywhere as a writer. the only thing im even good at is writing, playing with small children and petting animals. I need to know that i have a

Sadly this is a problem - you never can be completely sure that you will make money from selling a book, but you certainly can try and maximise your chances. First of all you should have some more confidence! Its a really over used and trite statement but if you believe in yourself others will, and things will work out better - if you really want to have success as a writer and believe that you can I am sure you will, and if you have faith you will definitely get the book finished! More pract...

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I'm in the process of writing my first to-be-sold book. My boyfriend has about 3% belief in me that I'll ever get anywhere as a writer. the only thing im even good at is writing, playing with small children and petting animals. I need to know that i have a

Sadly this is a problem - you never can be completely sure that you will make money from selling a book, but you certainly can try and maximise your chances. First of all you should have some more confidence! Its a really over used and trite statement but if you believe in yourself others will, and things will work out better - if you really want to have success as a writer and believe that you can I am sure you will, and if you have faith you will definitely get the book finished! More pract...

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June 28, 2013

More of my poetry on Amazon :)



More of my poetry on Amazon :)

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Poems from my poetry book - Could You Ever Live Without? The...





Poems from my poetry book -Could You Ever Live Without?The full book is available here.

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Published on June 28, 2013 17:40

Literary Fantasy

Fantasy is a strange genre. It is simultaneously the manifestation of a writer’s ultimate aim, that of creation, of complete creation in terms of entirely new worlds, entirely new lives, and all manner of completely original aspects of storytelling, but it remains frowned upon in certain “literary” circles. While fantasy is one of, if not the most, loved of all genres (the sales figures of the likes of Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, attest to this fact,) a quick perusal of agent and publis...

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