January 2011
16 posts
60 Awesome Search Engines for Serious Writers →
writingadvice:
Finding the information you need as a writer shouldn’t be a chore. Luckily, there are plenty of search engines out there that are designed to help you at any stage of the process, from coming up with great ideas to finding a publisher to get your work into print. Both writers still in college and those on their way to professional success will appreciate this list of useful search...
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English →
andreainspired:
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion, territory. Demure Shy and...
“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They...”
– James J. Kilpatrick (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
“The tragedy starts from the very first spark.”
– Feist
Last night half awake, half asleep I wrote a poem in my head. I promised myself I would stop getting up in the middle of the night to write things down so I left it there, hoping it would remain in the morning. And now it’s gone. I guess I will just have to reside myself to the fact that I will always be surrounded by sleepily written notes and pens without lids. I will always be haunted by...
Last week I bought a book solely just because I liked the cover. I never do this. Today I finished it and I actually feel profound. It literally made me question my own life in relation to many things, including travel, love, family and soul mates. I have always believed that a soul mate can come in any form whether that be male or female, young or old and they do not necessarily have to have a...
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they...”
– Ted Hughes (via recycled-words)
Dear Lover,
Please do not feel envious of the manifestation of men amongst my words. I have tried to write about you but I can’t, I just can’t. The time we spend alone is more than worthy of concealment. It is also so beautiful, that even if I tried to describe it, my readers would never believe me anyway.
By Sarah Wilkinson
My Imagination
I used to think I was a suspicious person, but as I have grown I have realised that actually I just have a rather tortuous imagination of which I have to express through writing. If I didn’t do this I would drive myself insane with explicit, intense ideas of debauchery, corruption and beautiful sin. What is ironic (and great) is that the more I write, the less haunted I feel by my own thoughts.
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Rare (lost) Words →
tristifical - causing to be sad or mournful. eternitarian - one who believes in the eternity of the soul. cosmogyral - whirling round the universe. siagonology - study of jaw-bones. autexousious - exercising or possessing free will. nepheliad - cloud-nymph. gardeviance -chest for valuables; a travelling trunk. ictuate - to emphasize. senticous - prickly; thorny. interfation - act of interrupting...
Wizard in a tracksuit: 05.01.11 →
morosky:
One of my favorite things to do is to collect the stories of how people met their husbands or wives or girlfriends, Boyfriends.. Soul mates. Lovers.
Today my friend told me of how she met her husband while working in the bank.. How she got a feeling about him and knew he was the one. How she…
Cry For Me
When you left the room I placed my face flat against the mattress and my arms above my head waiting to cry. After a few seconds nothing came. I breathed heavily and tried to push them out as images of you and he swept through my mind, whirling around like lost photographs in the wind, creating a coil of untold truths amongst circles and circles or reoccurring dreams and nightmares.
Soon enough I...
“Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of...”
– Marge Piercy, So You Want to Write (via morelovemorefire)
“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join...”
– Stephen Fry