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"Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they’re made..."

“Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they’re made for you, but you can’t avoid them.”

- Mhairi McFarlane

"Rules such as ‘Write what you know,’ and ‘Show, don’t tell,’ while..."

“Rules such as ‘Write what you know,’ and ‘Show, don’t tell,’ while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.”

- Tom Robbins

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT ✐NECRONOIRWrite about a detective as...

✐ DAILY WEIRD PROMPT✐

NECRONOIR

Write about a detective as they ambush the hideout of their life-long nemesis, in an attempt to catch them. The catch? When they arrive, they find the nemesis… dead. Double catch? The nemesis was never alive to begin with. They’re undead.

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"Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you..."

“Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don’t practice it.”

- Wallace Stegner

"Yes, it’s hard to write— but it’s harder not to."

“Yes, it’s hard to write— but it’s harder not to.”

- Carl Van Doren

⚘ DAILY STORY SEED ⚘Whispers Of The HeartWrite about a...

⚘ DAILY STORY SEED⚘

Whispers Of The Heart

Write about a character who possesses the strange ability to ‘listen’ to a person’s heart and know exactly what they truly desire. How has this ability changed their life? What is it like to know, with certainly, what everyone desires around you? Is it a gift, or a burden?

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"Don’t make the editor’s decision for her by not submitting."

“Don’t make the editor’s decision for her by not submitting.”

- Victoria Janssen

I am not gonna lie, I kind of spent 10 minutes laughing at all of the comments/reactions to the joke...

I am not gonna lie, I kind of spent 10 minutes laughing at all of the comments/reactions to the joke I posted earlier.

maxkirin:Hello, dear followers!I’m really excited to finally...

maxkirin:

Hello, dear followers!

I’m really excited to finally open my Patreon page!For the last two years I’ve been running this blog, offering writing advice, inspirational content for writers, and tons of prompts. And it’s been fun! I’ve met tens of thousands of writers, and every time I hear from them, that they’re finally getting back into writing — or that writing is finally fun for them — that seriously makes my day.

That’s why I want to do more. I want to create even more content for a...

"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls..."

“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

- Charles Peguy