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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 8h

Hi All, I've been out writing and creating, back now. Proud to announce the release of the Storyfyre 3 Beta and Storyfyre 3 Pro. Getting ready for Writing in November, I hope you'll give it a try. Author request here/follow = free 30 Day trial. - Wrtr #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 9h

Writing: As an author and writer, we get to choose each day the stories we write and the worlds that we create. There's a great freedom in that, a great relief. - Wrtr #AmWriting ...Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Writing is a lifetime adventure. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a foggy lagoon under a mountainside, with a lighthouse on an island in the ocean in the distance.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Knowing when and where to stop in your story and writing to place the ending is an art form. Leave a bit to be discovered for the reader. Help them create a little bit of that story in their imagination. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Books aren't just made of words ...they're also filled with places to visit and people to meet. - Author Unknown

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing feels different every single day. Some days you roll. Some you sit and wait for each word to come out. Each day though you are one step closer to being done. - Wrtr #AmWriting Writing. Some days you have to write through your blocks. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. - Ernest Hemingway ~ Hi All, it's my birthday tomorrow! Woot! Wondering if anyone reads these? =) Cheers! - C ( Wrtr )

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Storytelling is more than just writing a story, it's writing one that pulls the reader along with it. One that they can feel in the words. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing ...Writing. #Author #Writer #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

I dig the stories where the authors loved their stories and you can tell. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a rounded rock beach with the waves crashing in the background.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As authors, we all have those inner critics we have to beat every day. - Wrtr #AmWriting ...Writing. #Author #Writer #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky ( Thank you to and Cool Comic/Art By: @SteveOgdenArt - @steveogdenart.bsky.social )

Two illustrated cats talking about writing a book. one...should write a book, but..., the other .... reminds them how many will read it if they don't write it. ...so write it. - Steve Ogden @steveogdenart.bsky.social~ Shout out to Steve Ogden! Sup! From an old Twitter account.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Be true to your story. Write. And Keep Writing. If you have a story to tell. Tell it. ...Be Writing. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing #Author #Writer #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

You will never please everyone and that's okay. Stay True to yourself, your values & your purpose.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Let's all thank our co-writers that stand with us or sit next to us every day and love us no matter what we write. 🙂 - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing Be Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Photo shows writing partner pup and co-writer boston terrier mix.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A writer never stops learning to better their craft. With each word we write, we add to our knowledge, and with each new idea, we expand it. #amwriting ...Be Writing. #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. - Maya Angelou ~ Background photo shows a fountain pen writing.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Writer's bedtime thoughts. #AmWriting Sometimes your characters and writing have a mind of their own. Writing. - Wrtr ~ Spent the last 2 days writing a new Sci-Fi MG-Lit story. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Text in image: Dear Characters in my Book. Please figure out what to do next. (Soonish, if you don't mind.) Love, Your Author.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Writing: Ever feel like writer's block has your writing all boxed up? Write a cool side short story about your side characters that you can use on your blog or as an extra at the end of your book. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Background photo shows Gray(cat) in a small-ish cardboard box, where else, of course.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Writing: "Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress." - Rebecca McKinsey #amwriting Be Writing. #AmWriting #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. ~ Earl Nightingale - Background photo shows a snow covered mountaintop with a story waiting to happen.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Writing: “You have to write in a way that tells the story the best, whatever that is. So many writing rules are subjective. As soon as someone says it as a writing rule, then someone uses it in a new way and you go, wow! That's cool.”- Wrtr #AmWriting Keep #Writing #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy ~ Background photo shows the fog between the mountains, just before it burns off as the sun rises. The fog + sun give it the look of a painting.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great writing is sometimes made in a great edit. A new direction in your writing can turn around a chapter. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing Write. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. - Ray Bradbury ~ Background photo shows a half filled coffee mug waiting on a dark wood writing desk. Be Writing.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” - Isaac Asimov #AmWriting #AmEditing #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When writing a story, try to show your character's emotions in dialogue, action, or expression. Show the results of a character's emotions. It's the most effective way to get it across to the reader. - Wrtr #AmWriting Writing. #Author #Writer #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. - Lemony Snicket ... Be Writing.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As an author, you grow twice in your writing. You grow during your writing, and each time you finish something. Each story you write is a stepping stone to the next thing you haven't yet written. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt. - Sylvia Plath ~ Be Writing. ~Background photo shows a the green hills just below the snow frosted and fog covered mountains. The fog and redirected sunlight giving it almost a painting feel.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As a writer keeps writing, they grow more experienced at communicating the words and worlds that reside inside them. - Wrtr #AmWriting ~ Be Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

A writer is a world trapped inside a person. - Victor Hugo ~ Background photo is of a writer desk with an old world globe, flowers, and an old time black typewriter on it, just waiting for a story.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A good book helps us become part of the cast of characters in the story. - Wrtr #AmWriting ~ Be Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. - Maya Angelou ~ Background photo shows a woman standing tall on a mountaintop looking over the valley and the mountain below. Some fog meanders through the air below her.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Writing: The hardest thing to do as an author or writer writing is to trust your reader that they will get your story. But you must, if you are going to be successful. And trusting them means you are also trusting yourself. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

It begins with a character, usually, and once they stand up on their feet and begin to move, all I can do is trot along behind them with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what they say and do.” - William Faulkner ...Be Writing. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a stair steps in a forest, with green leaves and trees surrounding it.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sometimes as an author you just have to have persistence no matter what in your writing and story. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing Stick to it. ..Keep Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Just Write. - Wrtr ~ Sometimes you just have to write the story you feel.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Not all stories come out whole. Once I close the end of my first draft, I like to think of that time after it as re-plotting time. I take some time to think if all the story elements line up. What the reader will need for them to see a better story.- Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky

And now that you don't have to be perfect you can be good. - John Steinbeck ~ Background photo shows a lined notepad of writing notes next to a large tea cup of hot chocolate, as the early morning sun shines through the garden window on to the writing desk.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sometimes fixing your writer's block isn't about changing your writing, it's about changing your perspective. Do something to change your perspective. Go for a walk. Enjoy some life. Think differently. Then come back and write. -Wrtr #AmWriting ...Be Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky

You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. - John Rogers Screenwriter ~ Background photo shows a fall day and color from the ground up, with the sun shining through the trees on the side.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Write like you can feel the pulse of the reader of your novel while you are writing. Feel the hills and valleys of the story. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing ..Be Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. - John Grisham ~ Background photo shows a mountain lake, from the view of the lake, late at night, giving it a dark blue sky color.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Make all your characters have the depth they need so the reader can hold on to and love them. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing Keep Writing. Keep Editing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

The character that lasts is an ordinary person with some extraordinary qualities. - Raymond Chandler ~ Detective writer. ~ Background photo shows a person walking down a winding road on a foggy night with trees overhead.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Writing: Hi All! =) Needed to spend the last 6 days writing new stories for deadlines, scifi MGLit. Hope everyone is doing well, safe, healthy, and writing well. WriteOn! - Wrtr ( C ) #AmWriting #Writing #Writer #Author #BookSky #AuthorSky

Sometimes I pretend to have insomnia when what I really have is a good book and an inadequate respect for tomorrow. - Unknown Author ~ Background shows person reading while in bed.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Characters help us travel to each book. As a reader, I follow along with the characters. A book transforms us if the characters shine. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing ...Keep Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky (Great Art/Comic by @debbieohi.com)

Great Art/Comic by @debbieohi.com ~ Discusses reading a book for the first time. Author humor.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Embrace your writing process, each writer writing has a different one. Don't fear your writing process, make it work for you and your stories. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting ...Keep Writing #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Give yourself time. - Wrtr ~ Background shows a pocket watch sitting open on a table. The middle of it is clear so you can see the gears turning around.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Writing: Sometimes you have to let your characters out and see where they take you. It may surprise you in a good way. - Wrtr #AmWriting Writing. #Author #Writer #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. - Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Quote sew into a wall cloth. For displaying on the wall in a writing office.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Finding your writing voice is a uniquely individual thing. There are no rules to finding it. Don't let anyone mess with it. Stay true. Each novel, book, story has its own voice. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Author #Writer #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Just Write. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows looking up at the night sky, the tops of trees can be seen outlined in the sky, the night giving off almost a dark blue color.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Writing: Drop your readers into your story. Roll them around in it. And make them see it. Where it's more about living it than reading it. Give them an experience, not just a read. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Keep Reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have. - Lloyd Alexander ~ Background photo shows a foggy forest, covered in cloud cover, with wolves making their way out of the fog. Giving it a real but surreal feel.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The best advice I can give new authors and all authors really is just start writing, and keep writing. Read and read some more. #AmWriting - Wrtr ~ Sometimes writing is about enjoying the story you write. Important to remember. #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky #MGLit #KidLit

Background photo is a pumpkin sculpture with wild arms, legs, and hands made out of the pumpkin vines. It's a cyclops pumpkin sitting on another massive pumpkin as grasps out at the camera. Looks kinda cranky about having its picture taken.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

With each new writing project, a writer comes out the other side improved. Our experiences while writing help shape who we are. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander ~ Background photo shows a glacial mountain in the distance as night falls, giving the land and mountain a surreal almost purple color with light shining behind the mountain.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Writing a novel is more than writing a story, it's writing one that pulls the reader along with it. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing Be Writing. #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

If a book is well written, I always find it too short. - Jane Austen ~ Background photo shows english cottage with ivy growing on it, hidden behind a found rock wall.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Help readers get to know your characters throughout your book. Character insights should fit into the flow of your story and novel. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing ...Writing. Readers feel how a character grows. #Writing #Author #Writer

Stay true to your writing goals. Learn. Progress. Write More. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a wooden pier heading out into the water of an open lake.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Writing: Sometimes as an author, you are the captain of the ship, and you write the characters. Other times, depending on the story, the characters write themselves. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. - John Lennon ~ Background photo shows a mountain lake nestled just below the mountain with clouds above and trees surrounding it.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Writing: In all great story writing, there's a touch of magic in it that transports people out of their current lives. Writing that is greater than all of the writing rules that it follows. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

If you want to be a writer you must learn to paint with words. - Brian Jacques ~ Background shows a photo of a painting of rolling green hills.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Being a writer is challenging when writing. But the feeling of exploring is definitely worth the challenge. Be a positive influence. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Boldly write what no one has written before. - Wrtr ~ Background shows a starship over a planet.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Stories shape the way we feel and see the world around us and how we respond and interact with it. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing As authors, they set us free to write. #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Each of us is a book with many stories inside. Make sure to let a few out. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a stack of books on a writing table. A pen and writing pad sit next to them.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Writing: Happiness is when all your plot points for your new book finally click together and show themselves, and you can write the story end to end. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen Writing. ~ Background photo shows a massive wave cresting in the ocean.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Calm the negative, write. Write just the first paragraph. Then the next paragraph. Being an author is just the small fact of continued writing. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing Write for You. #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Background photo shows a coffee cup on a saucer sitting on a writing desk, surrounded by books, one book open being read.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Will be back tomorrow. Still have a couple chapters left to finish up. - Wrtr ( C ) #AmWriting - #Writing #Writer #Author #BookSky #AuthorSky

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Writing: Hi All! =) Spent the last week writing the first book of a series that will be released as a serial on the web through a story writing website. Hope you all are excellent and writing well. RockOn! - Wrtr ( C ) #AmWriting - #Writing #Writer #Author #BookSky #AuthorSky

Background photo shows a typewriter with Chapter 1 printed on top of the page in it.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Be happy with who you are, the writer and the person. Keep writing until you find your story's writing voice. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Happy doggo looks up, sort of has fox ears. Wants to know if she's in the book?

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Use supporting characters in your writing to fill in the story and provide comic relief. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing Be Writing. #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. - Baltasar Gracian ... A little author writing humor. ~ Background photo shows a staircase spiraling up.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Keep your childlike wonder alive. Make dragons possible, if only in your mind and writing. Write. Find your dragons. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Background real photo shows a real life mini dragon(Armadillo girdled lizard) sitting on a person's hand. It's tail is in its mouth. ~ https://www.google.com/search?q=Armadillo+Girdled+Lizard

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Sometimes you have to put blinders on and just focus on writing. Not tomorrow. Not next year. Make Something. Create Something. Act in defiance to change your world. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait. - Charles Dickens ~ This quote is also sometimes attributed to Charles Reade. ...honestly we don't know, we ran into the Dickens version first. But Charles Reade did possibly write in Charles Dickens' magazine and they were contemporaries at the same time.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

All authors write stories differently it's why we celebrate them. Each with their own take and process. Write what you are interested in, what makes you, You. - Wrtr #AmWriting Be Writing. #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. - Edward Abbey ~ Be Writing. ~ No photo.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“My only conclusion about story structure is that nothing works if you don’t have interesting characters and a good story to tell.” - Harold Ramis ~ Ghostbusters, Meatballs, Stripes, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, more... #AmWriting Be Writing. #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

The thing about a great book is you want to know the ending, but you don't want the book to end. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows an open book on a reading table, a set of reading glasses sitting on top.

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Don't let a block stop you from writing. Remove something, change something. Rethink something. Listen to your heart, it knows what to write. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing...Be Writing. #Writing #Author #Writer #BookSky #AuthorSky

Just Write. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a person exercising out on a stone ledge over a river, near the grand canyon.

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