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the pond and the stream

Ask me anything   I'm Bethany. I knit too much, read too much and have finally started writing as much as I should be. My love affairs include good Shetland wool, massive quantities of buttered toast, Elizabeth Gaskell novels, Doctor Who, zombies, and British folk rock.

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Fact:

I’m doing the final check now, but I think I just hit 300,000 words on the story.

You know what that means? Book Two is almost done.

— 1 week ago with 1 note
#writing  #the story 
"Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil - but there is no way around them."
Isaac Asimov (via libraryland)
— 1 month ago with 103 notes
#writing  #quotes  #Isaac Asimov 
102 Resources for Fiction Writers →

Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on

(Source: ruthlesscalculus)

— 1 month ago with 28844 notes
#writing 
Snow Glass Apples - Neil Gaiman

vainbuthonest:

I do not know what manner of thing she is. None of us do. She killed her mother in the birthing, but that’s never enough to account for it.

They call me wise, but I am far from wise, for all that I foresaw fragments of it, frozen moments caught in pools of water or in the cold glass of my mirror. If I were wise I would not have tried to change what I saw. If I were wise I would have killed myself before ever I encountered her, before ever I caught him.

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UGH just when I start feeling at peace with my writing, I reread this.

(Source: neilgaiman.com, via featherandarrow)

— 4 months ago with 7 notes
#Neil Gaiman  #Snow Glass Apples  #fantasy  #fairy tales  #short story  #writing