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
Ever have one of those facepalm moments?
Apparently, I never flipped the switch on my website so that people could actually buy copies of the new book.
*facepalms hard*
SHOULD be fixed now... I hope.
#IndieAuthor #TurtleWriters #BookLaunch
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
I just emailed my entire story to myself for safekeeping. The final scene is bare bones, needs work, but it has everything I need - it explains why my MC is in the predicament she's in. Need to go over it a zillion times. That's my style. #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity
#scifi
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
A young woman reading a book.
“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.”
— Ernest Gaines
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
One more repost for the evening crowd.
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch #Gold1 #ReadingCommunity
A repost for the afternoon crowd.
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch #Gold1
#ReadingCommunity
Back view of a man standing on a lake shore, looking out over the water, with a dark pink, blue and purple sky.
"The dread of criticism is the death of genius."
– William Gilmore Simms
Please don’t let fear stifle your creativity, #turtlewriters! Be brave & think positive. Readers are waiting to fall in love with your story, but you have to write it first! Good luck. 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
As the war continues, Sundale will try to put himself back together emotionally, while he and his comrades face a barrage of challenges, both from within, and without.
"Ripple"
Gold 1 book #2.
Coming 4-18-2026!
More below...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yrS...
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch #Gold1
A blue, orange and yellow dawn sky.
"Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day."
- Romain Rolland
Make the most of the day ahead. Think positive & follow your dream, whatever that may be, #turtlewriters! Good luck with everything you do. 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
Fantasy image of magical stars falling onto a shadowy Gothic mansion, seen through an opening in a dark forest.
"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."
– Carl Sagan
The power to work magic resides inside you, #turtlewriters! All you have to do is write your stories, no matter how long it may take you! Good luck! 🙂 🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
A pink and purple cloudy sky.
“An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.”
— Irwin Shaw
Think positive & keep going, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
How did it get to be 3 p.m.? Writing time = time on speed. One hour zooms by. Two hours. Three. For me, right now that means a few new lines of dialogue. A few words replaced. A new character born. A scene coming to life. #WritingCommunity #turtlewriters #WIP #scifi #horror.
Heart-shaped pink flowers on a slender curving over stem.
“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.”
- Theodore Dreiser
Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
A river surrounded by tall fir trees, with snow-covered mountains in the distance.
"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
Welp, always something right at the finish line.
Small delay to my plans, but hopefully not a big one.
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch
A pale pink and blue tinged sky over misty mountains edging a wide lake.
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Think positive & keep going, however long it takes you, #turtlewriters! Good luck with editing your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
A golden sky over a storm-tossed sea.
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
- Nicholas Sparks
If you pour love into your writing, #turtlewriters, your readers will feel it and love your story too! 🙂🐢🍀❤️Good luck with everything! #WritingCommunity
I think I'm on schedule.
If I'm right, later this week, there will be more to hear.
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch
A turquoise, pink and orange dawn sky.
“Make a half-hour or hour in a day, or an hour in a week, for writing. Just make sure you have at least one designated time—however long it is, given your constraints—to focus on writing.”
– Roxane Gay
Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
Black & white image of someone thumbing through an open thesaurus.
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
— Stephen King
But sometimes you just need reminding of the word on the tip of your tongue! Don't be afraid to disagree with the greats! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
A long river winding amongst silhouetted riverbanks, reflecting a golden sunset sky.
“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.”
— Louise Brown
Remember, most bestselling authors have drawers full of rejection slips! They're published because they kept going & didn't give up! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
A writer writing by hand in a notebook, with a printed book lying open on the desk next to a mug of black coffee.
“I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Make sure you can always record that wonderful idea/plot hole solution that always pounces on you at the most inopportune moment! Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
Dotting I's.
Crossing T's.
Being sure I forgot something.
And hoping what I think will work, will actually work.
Details soon.
#turtlewriters #Scifi #BookLaunch
Tall stems of yellow wild flowers in a meadow, with hills and a blue & white cloudy sky beyond.
“The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.”
— E.B. White
Think positive & keep going, #turtlewriters! Good luck with editing your WIP! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
The quote printed on a lined paper background.
“I go out to my little office, where I’ve got a manuscript, & the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that, & it’s like getting on a taxiway. I’m able to go through & revise it & put myself — click — back into that world.”
Stephen King
Good luck, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity
