BRIDGET WHELAN writer

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Ray Bradbury’s Definition of Plot QUOTES FOR WRITERS

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinationsRay Bradbury Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash

July 12, 2020 · 2 Comments

“…I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you…” Ray Bradbury’s advice to writers QUOTES FOR WRITERS

You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries … Continue reading →

February 23, 2020 · 3 Comments

“…It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.” Ray Bradbury QUOTES FOR WRITERS

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same … Continue reading →

January 12, 2020 · 2 Comments

Burn down the house – Ray Bradbury Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)

This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven … Continue reading →

April 12, 2015 · 5 Comments
Brighton Book Group for Writers – this week ELIZABETH HAYNES

Brighton Book Group for Writers – this week ELIZABETH HAYNES

Louisa Stevenson, organisor of the Book group for Brighton Writers, just dropped me a line to remind me that author ELIZABETH HAYNES will be visiting the group on Wednesday at … Continue reading →

January 7, 2013 · 1 Comment
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations)

Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations)

“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry … Continue reading →

October 21, 2012 · 2 Comments

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