Why Writing Can’t Be Easy — Writers In The Storm


An encouraging post!

Tasha Seegmiller Have you ever tried to quit writing? Promised everyone near and far that you were no longer going to keep being the schmuck who pounds the keyboard, willingly and knowingly sending out queries and synopses and manuscripts to those who will, for the most part, reject them? How long did you last? I’ve…

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“after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is…”


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“It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”

— Aldous Huxley, author, writer, novelist, philosopher, English


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“…nothing you do is ever insignificant.”


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“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”

― Aldous Huxley, novelist, English, writer



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Born on this day Robert Louis Stevenson


Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, 
and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, 
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Born November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Died: December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa.

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“There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is…”


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“There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.”

–Winslow Homer, painter, American


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