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The stories we write tell the truths we aren't always able to speak. #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Radical honesty is possible in fiction.”
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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What truths have you discovered in your own poetry? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Joy Harlo: “Poetry is the voice of what can’t be spoken.”
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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What would you write if fear couldn't hold you back? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from George Orwell: “Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Who made you the writer you are today? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from James Baldwin: “The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.”
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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What defines your personal writing style? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Ray Bradbury: “Once you nail down what you want to say about yourself and your fears and your life, then that becomes your style.”
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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How long have you known you wanted to be a writer? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Casey McQuiston: “Five-year-old me was right: Writing books is what makes me happiest.”
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Every writer knows that that blank screen can be daunting. What gives you the courage to push through? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Amanda Peters: “I did the terrible thing that writers do: Put themselves in front of a blank screen.”
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The stories we love become the stories we long to tell. What books inspired you as a kid? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Isaac Marion: “I was 14 when I realized that there was no reason I couldn't write books just like all the books I loved reading.”
October 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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What feeds your need to write? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from P. Djeli Clark: “I figured everybody gets their ideas from somewhere, mine just happen to be something I've studied or read.”
October 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Our experiences don’t just shape who we are – they shape how we write. #writers #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Zaina Arafat: “The act of remembering feels like the starting point for the writing process.”
October 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Often, our stories are too wide-reaching to be crammed into a category, genre, or trope. Who is your favorite genre-bending author? #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading #booktropes
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Audrey Niffenegger: “I think it would be very freeing for all writers to be able to reclaim the territories that have been ceded to the genres.”
September 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Sometimes, we don’t know what we’re writing about until we put pen to paper. Sometimes, the story writes us. #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from George Saunders: “To my way of thinking, the (happy, liberating) point is that the writer doesn’t have to decide; she has to discover.”
September 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Writing gives voice to the parts of ourselves that are heavy to bear. How has writing been cathartic for you? #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Laurie Halse Anderson: “I write from anger, I write from curiosity, and I write from confusion.”
September 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Books provide us with an entirely new way to communicate how we feel. What books have resonated deeply with you? #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading #yanovels #yafiction
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Sara Pennypacker: “I like to imagine my readers holding up my books to their adults and saying, ‘This is how I feel. This is what it’s like for me.’”
August 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The kids are alright. What children’s or YA authors do you or your kids love? #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading #yanovels #yafiction
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Clive Barker: "I was rewarded by the incredible intellgience of the younger people responding to the books, incredible clarity of thinking and humanity."
August 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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As the author of “Heartstopper,” Oseman knows – readers want queer stories that exist outside of tragedy. What queer authors have inspired you? #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading #heartstopper
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Alice Oseman: "There are so many people who want queer stories, especially young people. There is absolutely a market for those stories in mainstream media."
August 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Every author’s process is unique. How will you go about creating your masterpiece? #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading #writingprocess
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Sonora Reyes: "There is no right or wrong way to create something."
August 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Some writerly resources for those who like words. open.substack.com/pub/kimsuhr/...
5 Writerly Things, 8.8.25
Resources to support your writing life
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August 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The value of seeing yourself in the pages of your favorite stories cannot be overstated. #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading #representation
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Xiran Jay Zhao: "I think a lot of us writers of color grew up thinking that we're not allowed to put ourselves in our books ... Now we're finally writing the books that our younger selves would have died to read."
August 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Diverse stories deserve to be told. #writingcommunity #bookstagram #reading #representation #rupikaur
Red and black quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Rupi Kaur: "We're seeing so much more diversity within the writing scene and there's so much room for it. But you can't wait to be let into the door, you just have to find a way to sneak in."
July 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Today is the LAST DAY to register for our summer writing camp. Head over to redoakwriting.com to secure your spot! #writer #writing #writingcommunity
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July 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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We want to help you finish your draft. Join us at our youth writing camp this summer! Registration ends Friday. #writer #writing #writingcommunity
A black and red quote graphic framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Leigh Bardugo: "Sometimes, the only way to get a draft finished is to just write, no looking back."
July 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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We want to hear from you. If you were to join us at our youth writing camp this summer, what would you choose to write about? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
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June 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Never underestimate the power of a story. What books have brought you hope or comfort? #writer #writing #writingcommunity
Red and black quote card framed by red oak leaves. This week's quote is from Roxane Gay: "Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. ... They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds."
June 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Come to Red Oak's youth writing camp this summer and spend some sacred writing time outside at Mount Mary University. Register at redoakwriting.com. #writer #writing #writingcommunity
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June 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM