White foliage set against a warm gold background.
“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”
– Jane Austen, on self-doubt.
Believe in yourself, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity. You can do so much more than you think you can! 🙂🐢❤️🍀
Sketch, in gold ink on antique paper, of an old manual Olympia typewriter and several books lying in a pile on the table.
"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."
– Charles Dickens
Good luck, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
A figure sitting in shadow, reading a book illuminated by an unseen table lamp.
"The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions."
- Virginia Woolf
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️
A church on an island in the centre of a lake, surrounded by forests & mountains and the pink, purple, yellow & orange shades of a dawn sky, all of which are reflected in the mirror-calm water.
"A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not...to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake...luxuriate in the sensation of water...an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes & emboldens the soul to accept mystery."
- John Keats
#turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀
"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
- Charles Dickens
#turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
Three candles burning brightly, with molten wax cascading down their sides.
"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
- Charles Dickens
#turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
An old hardcover volume, with hand-cut pages, lying open at a blank page, on a wooden table.
"The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things."
- Thomas Hardy
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
Fantasy image of a river surrounded by forest & mountains, with a large open book & ornate silver pocket watch in the bottom right hand corner, and the large face of a barn owl amongst the clouds overhead.
"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."
- Jane Austen
And then let it inspire you to be creative! Good luck, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
A coloured sketch of old hardcover books on a shelf.
"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."
Virginia Woolf
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️
A graphic containing the words: ‘Smile, sparkle, shine’ on a black background.
"No need to hurry.
No need to sparkle.
No need to be anybody but oneself."
- Virginia Woolf
Take care, stay safe & enjoy being *you*, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️
View looking up, surrounded on all sides by library shelving, towards birds flying across a cloudy sky, illuminated by golden sunlight.
"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
~James Russell Lowell
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
Metaphorical flames leaping from a book lying open on a table, with a key across one of the pages.
"What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself."
- Charlotte Bronte
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity🙂🐢❤️🍀
A blaze of golden sunshine illuminating a hare sitting on the path in a dark, shadowy forest.
"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
– Charles Dickens
#turtlewriters🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity
For all those who've been a light amongst the shadows for someone else recently, in however large or small a way! ❤️ ((hugs))
A black pen lying across an open book, illuminated by candlelight.
I love
the smell of vintage words,
the taste of authors' souls,
the feel of books a thousand times read,
the sight of worn spines in line on a shelf,
the haunting sound and inked-mind silence of
reading alone.
~Terri Guillemets
Stay safe, #turtlewriters #writers 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity
A golden sunrise over dew-soaked grass.
“A writer is a writer not because she writes well & easily...has amazing talent or...everything she does is golden.
A writer is a writer because, even when there’s no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
- Junto Diaz
#turtlewriters🙂🐢#WritingCommunity
Silhouette of a tall ship, with furled sails, sailing across calm waters towards a pink & blue sunset.
"My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter."
~Thomas Helm
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
Sketch of a complete steam locomotive, plus various technical drawings of individual elements such as wheels & piston rods.
"Reading in English, living in English, has taught me to make language as beautiful as possible, but precise. Excessive adjectives, excessive description — skip it, it’s unnecessary."
– Isabel Allende
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
🤣Always, Kitchen - in all senses!🤣🐢
Limestone rocks and grass-covered slopes on the Yorkshire Moors, illuminated by a blaze of golden sunshine.
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
– William Wadsworth
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
A blue-and-pink shades image of a galaxy dotted with bright starbursts of light.
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
– William H. Gass
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
He's really rather cute! 🙂🐢💖
Yay for your writing/tidying. Anything creative you achieve with family around is little short of miraculous!
I don't even attempt it!
Have a lovely Easter, Kitchen. 💖🙂
A small red dragon, wings outstretched, balancing on a four-legged wooden stool, reading from a book and scrolls lying open on a large, C18th style oak library table which has an astrolabe on it, and across the room, a tall oak filing cabinet containing rows of tiny drawers.
"One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night."
~Dr. SunWolf
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀
A tiny, silhouetted figure looking up at a blue, pink and gold galaxy.
"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."
— Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
Good luck with everything you do, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️((hugs)) Take care & stay safe, my friends. #WritingCommunity
A huge curling wave, deep purple against a light blue sky.
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
- W. Somerset Maugham
I suspect this may apply to the stories we're writing, too. Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! ❤️🐢🙂 #WritingCommunity
A clump of three & four leaf clover plants.
“Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil — but there is no way around them.”
— Isaac Asimov
Even famous writers get them, so don't stop. Keep trying. Good luck, #turtlewriters ((hugs))❤️🐢🙂🍀 #WritingCommunity
A seagull standing on the seashore, with the water pink & blue beyond it.
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
- Oscar Wilde
Love comes in many guises! You're a writer & sing *that* song with every word you write! Good luck, #turtlewriters ❤️ 🙂🐢 🍀 #writingCommunity
A pale brown, smiling teddy bear being taken outside for a walk by a child who's only holding it by one of its paws.
"The friend who understands you, creates you."
- Romain Rolland
You are a writer! You have a great story & only *you* can tell it in the way it wants to be told. You can do it! We believe in you, #turtlewriters! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
Image of a tortoise crawling off the grass onto paving stones to talk to a tabby cat whose head is bent down to listen.
'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️
Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity
Golden flames burning fiercely.
"The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain...but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, & from writer to reader spreads the fire...until it becomes a vast conflagration..."
- Romain Rolland
#turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity