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Red and Orange Streak by Georgia O'Keeffe via DailyArt mobile app What’s happening in this mysterious, glowing painting? Two broad arcs of orange rise from the lower left and shoot out toward the upper right, framing a bright yellow zigzag shape that seems t

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Writers Meetup - St. Louis 12/29 6607 Chippewa 63109 Bread Company 6PM - 8PM

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a knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. - Rene Daumal

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Another 10 Classic Children’s Anthology Books Worth Revisiting for Halloween Growing up, my Halloween experience wasn’t complete without ghost stories. Long before I could get my hands on horror movies, my Halloween thrills were largely found in books. Little did the parentals...

Like years before, I've curated stories from 10 classic children's anthology horror books. They're perfect for Halloween.

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Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Full Documentary | Biography YouTube video by Biography

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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away - Pablo Picasso

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better - Andre Gide

If you can expand the container you're fishing in, your consciousness, you can get bigger fish - David Lynch

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Light is the most important person in the picture - Claude Monet

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Taking Your Writing Ideas Further With Beat Sheets Looking at structures, or ‘beat sheets’ for stories. And since it’s Halloween, THE HORROR BEAT SHEET Bwwoooowhhooo! 👻

Take a look at this 'Horror Beat Sheet' to see whether the spooky movies you're watching for Halloween follow this pattern in their own ways. And let's see how analyzing these patterns can help us write compelling tales of our own. #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #StoryBeats #Plotting #Fiction

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I'm not sure, but I haven't gotten too far in it. I just thought it was an interesting subject and well presented.

Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides on Writing | The New Yorker Festival YouTube video by The New Yorker

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Started reading this book 'Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate'. So far it's spot on. By Anna Bogutskaya. #Books #Reading #Writing #BookSky #WriterSky

Sheila Heti | Appel Salon | April 25, 2022 YouTube video by Toronto Public Library

"Whenever we encounter students of writing, it's so hard to teach them to care, to care over and over, about each draft, each word, what something looks like on the page, how something comes together--the assemblage of a book." Writer Souvankham Thammavongsa in conversation with Sheila Heti. #Write

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Sheila Heti’s First Time YouTube video by The Paris Review

"I put stories in envelopes on the subway... and hoped that... And I mailed them to people out of the phone book. I just wanted to feel like somebody was reading them--like it wasn't... That there was a possibility they had an audience, even if it was one random person..." #ParisReview #Writing

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The Frightening Pagan History of Halloween | Full Special YouTube video by HISTORY

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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. - Stephen King

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How To Write Any Story - Why Pacing Is Everything YouTube video by The Second Story

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