If I have not written to you before, it is owing to low spirits. I have not been able to take the pen, because it would have been dipped in too black a melancholy.

Mary Shelley, from a letter to Marianne Hunt c. April 1827 featured in Letters of Mary W. Shelley
(via violentwavesofemotion)

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“If people think you’re a witch, you might as well be one.” –

Esmerelda Weatherwax (via kerzv)

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Solarpunk allows you to imagine a truly positive and safe future. And considering how rife with tragic stories LGBT+ literature is? We deserve that escape. Some people protest that there is nothing punk in a hippie-green future. But here’s the thing: punk is refusing to accept false universal truths constantly pushed down our throats, and standing up together against them. Stories where we escaped that bullshit are vital. They’re not just fun. They help make the goal real and accessible. These are the stories I want to tell—those with hope as a driving force, a form of resistance against today’s pervasive defeatism.

Claudie Arseneault, in “Solarpunk, the LGBT Community, and the Importance of Imagining Positive Futures.” (via readvitality)

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Rare things

fixyourwritinghabits:

Henry David Thoreau wrote:

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you will have done rare things.

As one year closes and a new one dawns, I hope you all do those rare things in 2017.

Find your voice. Write your story. Change the world.

Love & Peace

-Graphei

How to deal with writer’s block: ‘I just lower my standards and carry on.’

William Stafford (via jamesgrantbrown)

A note to screenwriters of today: the only way to create stories that make us grow, think, feel and dream is to avoid the patriarchal iconography prototypes used to seduce producers. It’s not an easy ride; you have to be prepared to face all kinds of comments. I will never forget what a very well-known, Oscar-winning producer told me when I presented him the script for My Life Without Me: “Why do you want to tell the story of a poor, badly dressed woman who has just months to live?”. My answer was simple: “Well, someone has to”

Isabel Coixet, THIS FEMALE DIRECTOR IS SICK OF READING SCRIPTS ABOUT “YOUNG, SEXY WOMEN”
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The best fantasy writers don’t write fantasy in the fluffy, hocus-pocus sense, they change the rules by which the world works and then write very carefully and logically by those rules.

Terry Pratchett (Quote from ‘A Slip Of The Keyboard’)