Inspiration

Inspiration for the restless mind.


Inspiring Quotes

Favorite quotes from our amazing staff!

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

"Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost."

"You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life." ~Joanne Harris

"That's the thing about art, it's not meant to be defined. Misinterpretation begets discussion evokes passion."

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." ~Fortune Cookie

"Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. If you want love, give love. If you want honesty, give honesty. If you want respect, give respect. You get in return what you give."

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings..." ~Lao Tzu

"Happiness often sneaks in a door you did not think was open."

"We do not remember days. We remember moments."

"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

"Everything is going to be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end."

"Sometimes you can't explain what you see in a person. It's just the way they take you to a place where no one else can."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." ~Abraham Lincoln


Submission Ideas

Traditional poem structures and/or subjects:  ballad, elegy, limerick, haiku, sijo, sestina, ode, sonnet, sestina, villanelle, pantoum, riddle, shape, etc.

Poems about certain themes:  “reply” poems that “answer” or comment on a previous poem,; poems about beginnings, ending, meeting, parting,e growing up, booking back; poems that comment on or complement another art form; post card poems, things that are borrowed, etc.)

Free-Form Poetry:  poems in any form about anything. 

Try “showing” what an abstract concept looks like or does in practice:  prejudice, tolerance, love, jealousy, generosity, grudge, etc.

Letters:  persuasive, sympathy, thank-you, gratitude

Satire:  poems, essay, fairytales, dictionary definitions, culture

Essays:  insights, personal experience, description, narrative, memory, memoir, comparison/contrast, travel, food,  etc.

Mini-memoirs:  6-word memoirs

Fiction:  flash fiction, character vignette, short story; story told completey by email, text, postcard, etc.; graphic novelette, children’s story, retelling of a familiar story from another character’s point of view, comic strip

Drama or screenplay:  scene from an original stage drama or a scene from a screenplay


Cartoon



Comic strip


We also suggest going to this blog. It's relatively new, but it has a lot of good tips. It doesn't matter whether you're a fiction writer or not.

http://blogofafictionwriter.blogspot.com/

MORE TO COME SUPER SOON!

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