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guys stop making funny posts I'm scrumbling at work and if I smile at my phone they will shoot me immediately

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#a torch against the night

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"If by reading ‘Reckless’ I had just dipped my toes into the reading world, then by reading ‘Percy Jackson’ I went skinny dipping."

Here's a snippet from my blog post this morning titled 'Boredom's Greatest Gift: The Love of Reading'

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The cloak symbolism in 'A Torch Against The Night' >>>>

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@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

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A part of her longed for touch, but not of the body. She longed for the brush of someone's soul against her own. She craved a connection that transcended logic. She felt a burning desire at the core of her very being to get lost in a person. Any person.

She longed to let go of the icy hand of loneliness.

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Welcome to The Written Chambers!

This blog is just an excuse for me to churn out stories that would otherwise never see the light of day and a platform for me to talk about bookish things 24/7 <3

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

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Something that's been knocking around in my head for a while: I think a lot of new writers get thrown off by their assumption that writing will be anything like reading. Reading is a dreamy, passive experience--scenes, dialogue, and description flow over you as you are taken under the writer's spell. Writing, on the other hand (with the exception, sometimes, of the first draft), is the laborious, almost mechanical-like task of putting narrative elements together so that the reader can lose themselves in your story. In short, reading and writing are very different experiences, and the assumption that they will be, or even should be, the same, is cause for much angst among new and experienced writers alike. It's a frustrating thing, because a love of reading is usually what gets people interested in writing in the first place. I've been writing for several decades and I still feel confounded by this clash--it's part of why I don't read much when I'm deep into my writing, and vice versa. And when I am writing, I constantly have to remind myself: Writing is not watching a magic show. Writing is figuring out how to smuggle the rabbit into the hat.