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Happy place.

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Books and cats.

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Mount Adams, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, USA by Lee Rentz

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don't leave me!

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Reading Art by  Fongwei Liu

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The other day we went to pick up our joint gift. On the way there we decided to wonder down one of my favourite streets: it’s right in the heart of the city but kind of hidden, quiet and lined with beautiful old specialist bookshops 🖤

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Frans Schwartz (detail)

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Illustrazione di Jenny Kroik

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paris, france ⋅ ph. patrimoinefrancilien

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Hugo Mühlig (German, 1854-1929) - The merchant in the countryside

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Kaoru Yamada

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

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JOMP BPC || January 8 || Other-Worldly: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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1920, The Coffee Cup Café, 8901 Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, Ca.

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