startwithaseed:

Gladiola on Flickr.
My gladiola has started blooming. The other ones have just given me leaves so far.

startwithaseed:

Gladiola on Flickr.

My gladiola has started blooming. The other ones have just given me leaves so far.

"Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it."

Will Haygood (via writingquotes)

(via yeahwriters)

"That’s the nature of any creative activity — you’re mostly going to be rejected."

The New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff at a recent TED salon. When Mankoff quit psychology school in 1997 to become a cartoonist, he submitted 2,000 cartoons to the New Yorker that year. Of them, 2,000 were rejected. Today, he is the magazine’s cartoon editor.

Pair with the fantastic Fail Safe and Ray Bradbury’s advice on perseverance in the face of rejection.

(via explore-blog)

yeahwriters:

Prompt idea by rosewinterborn

You [or your character] go for a walk in the middle of the night and come across a gateway to another world. What do you [or your character] do, and what do you find?

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