General writing quotes inspire me immensely, and are so bountiful, that i figured for the last day of hd-writers 30 days of tips and more, i would picspam you with a bunch. Starting with my own personal favourite, that i try to remember every time the writing gets hard...


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21 Harsh But Eye-Opening Writing Tips From Great Authors. [Thought Catalog]

Here's another one of my favourites:

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My ( Read more... )

I'm not gonna lie -- I tend to play it safe. Maybe it's time to think outside the box!


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Harry Potter Prompt Adoption
The lovely Lyonessheart has come up with a new comm idea which we'd like to run by you all before going on to set it up.

Your opinions matter!

There are a lot, and I mean a lot, of HP prompt generating fests out there, and all of them yield absolutely fabulous results year in and year out.  But what happens to all those wonderful ( Read more... )

Hello. I've been wondering if there are any specific rules about how paragraphs should be structured, or how other writers decide when to put in a new paragraph break. Any advice?

(also posted on my journal)

Thank you :)

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Or, thoughts upon stealing character details from real people and giving them to fictional characters.

Just a quick post. I wrote some time ago in this community with THIS thread with regards to writing angry sex scenes. You may or may not have seen the post at the time. I just wanted to make a quick update to let anyone know that might have commented at the time that I have posted what I finally settled on, should you be interested in how it turned ( Read more... )