EB White’s desk. Pretty much all a writer needs, other than a steaming mug of caffeine.
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Since I’ve been able to daydream, I’ve wanted to be a writer. In particular, I wanted to be a novelist. I kept hoping, and dreaming, and writing. But sometimes when you dream about something for so long … it’s almost like it starts to feel less real. Does that make sense? It starts to take up space on a dusty shelf alongside all your other quirky hopes and dreams. Paper crowns and cardboard castles and a bunch of burned out wishing stars. And you want to write a novel?? Who do you think you are?! People will flat-out tell you that it’s a dumb dream. And here’s the thing: whatever your Big Dream is, I hope someone tells you how ridiculous you are for chasing after it. I hope they tell you that, so you get to feel what it’s like to prove them wrong. Keep hoping. Keep dreaming. Above all, keep writing. Even if the story you write isn’t the one that finds you an agent, or an editor, it’s still a story that can help you find your way. Write the next story. Hold on tight to the tail of that wishing star. You never know where it will carry you.
Natalie Lloyd, author of A Snicker of Magic (Scholastic, winter 2014)
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Oh, Dolly. Love you, girl.
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![This woman’s books shaped much of my youth. I devoured them. I can still recite long passages from Superfudge.
Literary Birthday - 12 February
Happy Birthday, Judy Blume, born 12 February 1938
Quotes
[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
The best books come from some place deep inside…. Become emotionally involved. If you don’t care about your characters, your readers won’t either.
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you’ve got to fight it.
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they’d like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
I didn’t know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
I’m really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write](http://25.media.tumblr.com/8d4137d28bf25531246ba7e4d1716bba/tumblr_mhaswqBk3R1rnvzfwo1_400.jpg)
This woman’s books shaped much of my youth. I devoured them. I can still recite long passages from Superfudge.
Literary Birthday - 12 February
Happy Birthday, Judy Blume, born 12 February 1938
Quotes
- [I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
- The best books come from some place deep inside…. Become emotionally involved. If you don’t care about your characters, your readers won’t either.
- Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you’ve got to fight it.
- I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they’d like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
- I didn’t know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
- I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
- Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
- What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
- I’m really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
- Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write
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Kiwi Sceptics - Air New Zealand - Australia Site
Because I adore NZ, and these vignettes tell a story very well indeed.
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Hemingway
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