'The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson #amwriting #amediting As a writer, we get to bring others along with us to new places, new lands, and new characters. - Wrtr .. #Writing #author

As an author or reader, there's nothing like finding a quiet time and a great place to hide away and read. #amwriting Find a great book to read. - Wrtr #author #writing

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ~ John Steinbeck #amwriting #author #Writing

On Writing: Are you a plotter or a pantser(discovery writer) in your writing? Striking a good balance can really bring out the best in your writing. #amwriting #amediting ~ #author #writing (Art credit: via The Happsters)

Storytelling is taking your reader on an adventure. Show them and help them discover the world you’ve created. #amwriting #author #Writing

You will always be a writer, there is no turning back from it. But what type of writer you become is entirely up to you. - Unknown #amwriting Keep #Writing ~ Despite what everyone or anyone says, what type of writer you want to be is always up to you. - Wrtr ..Write you. #author

“You have to write the book that wants to be written.” - Madeleine L'Engle #amwriting Be #Writing . ~Whether it's one that is a best seller or one that you put away for a bit and then get back out to finish later. You have to write the story that wants to be told. - Wrtr #author

As authors and writers, we put everything we have into our books, our worlds, our thoughts. And we never quite know who they will touch. The hope is that they will reach out to someone out there. #amwriting Be Writing. #author #writing ~ Support an author, read a book.

In writing: Give your supporting characters another 3 or 4 problems to worry about. Just like in real life, they have more things to worry about than just the main character's and main plot's problems. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting ~ #author #Writing #CampNaNoWriMo

Writing helps us cope with the day. Writing helps us get the words out that are stuck inside us. For each writer their writing is different. - Wrtr #amwriting #author #writing

Writing: Place your characters in a movement or action around your dialogue in your story that adds to your story instead of using dialogue tags. It keeps your readers interested, lets them know who's talking, and allows you to do more showing instead of telling. -Wrtr #amwriting

Books take us to places we couldn't otherwise travel to. And make us feel emotions and adventures we wouldn't otherwise feel. #amwriting Books are treasures we can keep. Books lead us to adventures we wouldn't otherwise have. - Wrtr ~ #author #Writing #CampNaNoWriMo

Develop your characters in your writing. Give them some depth. Make them your friends. Give them life. Bring us, the readers, back to the story with them. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting ~ #author #Writing

A good book helps us become one with and a part of the cast of characters in it. - Wrtr #amwriting ~ Even when we are the one writing it. #author #writing

On Writing when you are stuck: “Step Back. Look at it a different way. Breathe. Then Don't Give Up.” - Carrie Wilkerson #amwriting ~ #author #Writing

Writing binds us together. I think writing finds you when you most need it. Except for those great few who know right away that writing is for them. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting Keep Writing. #author #writing

Know what kind of writer you are and what kind of story you want it to be before you start to write your story. That's your story's angle. Knowing what kind of writer you want to be helps you translate it to the reader. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting ~ #author #Writing

Realize as an author, that what you write in your book is as much for you as it is for the reader. Sometimes more so. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting ~ #author #writing #CampNaNoWriMo ~ Write something you'd enjoy.

As an author, sometimes my head is just so full of writing and the story, that the only way to fix it is to let it all out in the writing, and then see what I have at the end of a second draft. #amwriting #amediting -Wrtr #author #Writing

Writing is all about the characters. Plot is what happens to them along the way. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting ~ #author #Writing #CampNaNoWriMo