My name is Kat. I'm 24 and I live in California. I love reading and writing. This blog is mainly composed of stuff that inspires me and my obsession with books, with a dash of fangirling about favorite ships and TV shows. Ask me anything you like.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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The more you read, the better you will understand the art of writing.
Stacey O’Neale (via michellegraminski)
We who write tend to fall in love with our characters. We create impossible journeys — with extraordinary destinations — for our characters to take, and we place hideous obstacles in their way. But because we love them — we want them to get through safely, unscathed, and triumphant.
Lois Lowry, afterword to Gathering Blue (via distantheartbeats)
I remember getting one script, and the people said, ‘Okay, well, it needs some help with the plot, the pace, the characters and the dialogue,’ ” he remembers. “And I said, ‘What did you like about it, the typing?
John Sayles, interviewed here. (via thebronzemedal)
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
Wislawa Szymborska (via writingadvice)
Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong..
Neil Gaiman (via suzywire)
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It’s always a part of my purpose as a storyteller to first create characters that the reader will be anxious for. You can’t be anxious for a character if you don’t care about the character, if you don’t in some way like, respect, or even love the character, or at least have affection for the character. And then, once I’ve established those characters, in whom the reader I hope has some emotional investment, then it’s perversely my job to make as many terrible things happen to those people we like as I can imagine.
John Irving (via writingadvice)
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I’m writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
Eric Brown (via writingadvice)
