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Welcome to the positive side of Writing. Author & Author software that helps people write. My Sci-fi + MG novels. Cool, clean, fun Writing Software for all. My page, 4 me, for writing motivation, writing connection, helps me write. Creator of Storyfyre.com

Keep Reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have. - Lloyd Alexander ~ Background photo shows a foggy forest, covered in cloud cover, with wolves making their way out of the fog. Giving it a real but surreal feel.
Background photo is a pumpkin sculpture with wild arms, legs, and hands made out of the pumpkin vines. It's a cyclops pumpkin sitting on another massive pumpkin as grasps out at the camera. Looks kinda cranky about having its picture taken.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander ~ Background photo shows a glacial mountain in the distance as night falls, giving the land and mountain a surreal almost purple color with light shining behind the mountain.
If a book is well written, I always find it too short. - Jane Austen ~ Background photo shows english cottage with ivy growing on it, hidden behind a found rock wall.
Stay true to your writing goals. Learn. Progress. Write More. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a wooden pier heading out into the water of an open lake.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. - John Lennon ~ Background photo shows a mountain lake nestled just below the mountain with clouds above and trees surrounding it.
If you want to be a writer you must learn to paint with words. - Brian Jacques ~ Background shows a photo of a painting of rolling green hills.
Boldly write what no one has written before. - Wrtr ~ Background shows a starship over a planet.
Each of us is a book with many stories inside. Make sure to let a few out. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a stack of books on a writing table. A pen and writing pad sit next to them.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen Writing. ~ Background photo shows a massive wave cresting in the ocean.
Background photo shows a coffee cup on a saucer sitting on a writing desk, surrounded by books, one book open being read.
Background photo shows a typewriter with Chapter 1 printed on top of the page in it.
Happy doggo looks up, sort of has fox ears. Wants to know if she's in the book?
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. - Baltasar Gracian ... A little author writing humor. ~ Background photo shows a staircase spiraling up.
Background real photo shows a real life mini dragon(Armadillo girdled lizard) sitting on a person's hand. It's tail is in its mouth. ~ https://www.google.com/search?q=Armadillo+Girdled+Lizard
Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait. - Charles Dickens ~ This quote is also sometimes attributed to Charles Reade. ...honestly we don't know, we ran into the Dickens version first. But Charles Reade did possibly write in Charles Dickens' magazine and they were contemporaries at the same time.
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. - Edward Abbey ~ Be Writing. ~ No photo.
The thing about a great book is you want to know the ending, but you don't want the book to end. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows an open book on a reading table, a set of reading glasses sitting on top.
Just Write. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows a person exercising out on a stone ledge over a river, near the grand canyon.
Writers use everything. We can't help it. Whatever touches us touches our writing. - Octavia Butler - Be Writing. ~ Background photo is a gray tone photo of a big city street after a stormy rain. The grey tone look gives everything including the plants on the side of the buildings, and the stormy sky an unusual look.
If there’s any single talent a writer needs, it’s persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell. -Octavia Butler - Be Writing. - Good writing is sometimes persistence. - Wrtr ~ Background shows a low fog cover over a pine forested valley.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare ~ Background photo shows the aurora borealis, the northern lights rising just over the top of some hills at night.
Cartoon/Illustration about reading... Art/Comic By: Grant Snider - @grantdraws.bsky.social ~ Heavy, speed, over, accelerated, proof. Very cool, but don't want to put all the text out there. Get his illustrated books.
What saves a person is to take a step. Then another step. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery Background photo shows a foggy night on a forest path, through the trees.
Let's root for each other and watch each other grow. Background illustration: Small plant, two green leaves.
Writing a book is like following a path that only reveals itself to you as you walk it. - Matt Myklusch - Writing. Background image shows a fall day filled with leaves falling along a forest path.
Background photo of cool tiny tortoise looking directly at the camera. Be Writing. Be well. - Wrtr
Authors mantra while writing, ignore the naysayers, break some rules, trust yourself in writing. And use your own imagination while writing. - Wrtr - Be Writing. ~ Background photo shows mountains dusted in clouds as the sun rises.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story. - Frank Herbert ~ Dune
I like to be surprised. Writing feels like exploring. - David Brin ~ Background photo shows desert landscape, hills and mountains behind it.
Background photo shows granite mountains.
Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it. - William Zinsser ~ Background photo shows a tidal pool during a storm, the water churning.
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot ~ Background photo shows a person walking on a hiking trail in the desert.
Illustration of a dog that you know, that is jumping into my mug of cola, that is also a writer( the dog, not the cola =)) ), who types on top of a dog house. =) And sends letters to his editor. =) Best writing mug ever! Write well! - Wrtr
It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in. - Erma Bombeck ~ Background photo shows a tree lined path with the sun filtering in, making it feel fantastic.
Background photo shows a bonsai type tree growing out from a mountain side under the evening sky, with clouds and stars.
Nothing will work. Unless you do. - Maya Angelou
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. - Emily Dickinson ~ Background photo shows a pine tree forest, the tops of the trees covered in fog.
You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world. - John Rogers - Leverage, The Librarians, The Player, Transformers... ~ Background photo shows rolling green hills with green trees lining them.
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. - John Grisham ~ Baclground photo shows granite mountains covered in snow with clouds circling them.
Writing fun: Characters often start as your own and then swiftly tell you that isn't how the scene goes. ~ Quote Credit: writingproblems / tumbler
The Nine R's of Writing. Comic illustration by Grant Snider ... Reading ... Writing ... Renown and more...
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have. - Lloyd Alexander ~ Background photo shows a forest trail at night lit up by a bright light at the end filling up the trail, giving the photo a fantastic feeling.
Let's root for each other and watch each other grow. - Illustration of a two green leafed plant stating to grow.
We write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside us. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. - Arthur Plotnik - Let the fire of your stories show through to your readers. - Wrtr ~ Writing. ~ Background photo shows a mountain forest. Fog rolls through the middle of the trees.
Quote found inside hot chocolate mug: 'Life is short. Stay awake for it.' ~ Background photo shows coffee mug with 'Life is short. Stay awake for it.' written inside of it.
If you want to be a writer you must learn to paint with words. - Brian Jacques ~ Background photo shows a mystic granite mountain surrounded by dense fog. The fog gives the mountain photo a fantasy feel.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. - E.B. White ~ Background photo shows the night sky in a way that it looks dark blue.
Find the heart of the story. Make the story about that. - Wrtr ~ Background photo shows green tree filled rolling hills through a bit of low clouds giving it an unusual look.
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. - Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Background photo shows the quote stitched into a cloth for displaying.
Background photo shows that dog you know jumping into my soda. Best mug evaaah!
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. - William Styron
Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way. - Ray Bradbury ~ Backgrousn photo shows an open book with a coffee cup next to it on a table outside in a garden.
Perfect reading spots. - Art/Comic By: Grant Snider ~ @grantdraws.bsky.social - Different reading spots, like in your favorite chair and others.
Background photo shows very large gray cat lounging inside a smaller cardboard box.