I celebrated Labour Day by submitting my first short story. How soon should I expect to be overwhelmed with fame and fortune? #WritingCommunity

This is Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia librarian who began taping whatever was on television from 1975 until her death in 2012. She made a total of 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes, which is the most comprehensive collection of television during this era. She was able to pay for her

Japanese author Haruki Murakami has a bizarre writing practice. He writes each book in English (his second language) before translating the draft to Japanese. When asked why he does this, Murakami says: “Every language has its unique rhythm, its own essence. By translating my

Madeline Nixon🇨🇦 Yes! Read Canadian books, with stories located in Canada, by Canadian authors, and published by Canadian presses! Now that's Canadian!🇨🇦 JEREMY SIEMENS A.J. Devlin @FrancesLPeck Sam Wiebe ‖ Nolan Chase @niall_howell @NeWestPress Harbour Publishing #IReadCanadianDay #Canada #Canadian

We love it when filmmakers take direct inspiration from great artists and classic paintings. Here are some of our favourites… First up, The Truman Show (1998) and Au Clair de Lune (1956) by René Magritte. 1/35

imagine this as a horror from her POV & after she finds out he woke her on purpose, she kills him & is haunted by visions of him the rest of the movie as she slowly loses her mind from loneliness and grief, ending with her waking up another passenger & continuing the cycle.

yes, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, but no one makes 100% of the shots they take, either. so write the next thing. query another agent. try a new genre. I promise, putting yourself out there gets a little less scary each time. shoot your shot, again and again.

Dedicating my new #flashfiction “Without a Trace” to every unread tweet floating in the void. Thanks to Sky Island Journal for giving it a home. #WritingCommunity skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issue-…

My querying adventure has begun! Wish me luck... and patience. If you could also lend me a thicker skin, that would be fantastic. #amquerying

My husband: I ordered your book Me: What? Why? I have 25 copies from my publisher  My husband: I want my own copy Me: But you can just take one of the 25 copies— My husband: I WANT MY OWN COPY

Does anyone else find that spending too much time plotting is like starting to pack way too early for a trip ­– you end up selecting more than you really need?#writingcommunity

Thank you for including me in your latest issue New Delta Review. I love the cover image by Robb Kunz!

Last night I had a dream where I exclaimed, "I just got into Learning University! LEARNING UNIVERSITY. My eyes popped open, ashamed my subconscious basically came up with, "I'm going to Schooly School!" I went right back to sleep to try to come up with a name worthy of a writer.

What it feels like to revise a novel

Interesting read- other points to note from my own experience... how many women (in this case 40+) get the 'Story By' credit and then the actual script is handed over to a dude who gets 'screenplay by'. Cuz that part sucks. indiewire.com/features/comme…

as a librarian and former child, I do think, generally, everyone needs to be less concerned with what kids are reading and more concerned with being someone who children in your life can talk to if they stumble upon something that scares or confuses them.

🧵 I keep seeing #amquerying writers anguish over having a... not-big number of rejections. Over getting no feedback. Over having queried a whole week with no full requests. I'm seeing people respond to these poor writers with "self-pub!" and "that's the market right now!" 1/4

Entering my Villain Era but it's just me following up on sent emails

In 2010, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki was asked to name his favorite children's books. The resulting list includes some of the best fiction ever published. 🧵

I have been moving, and I found my old Far Side books underneath the bed. If you are my age or thereabouts, nearly 25% are instantly memorable, nay legendary. It's the greatest single-panel strip of all time. But I think this might be the best of all, and if I'm wrong prove it.