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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

Healing Fiction—With Cats! hayward.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
#writing #reading #healingfiction #cats #books #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
#writing #quotes #BrendaBarker #secondchance #motivation #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

Analyze First Lines to Write Openings Your Readers Will Love: writersinthestormblog.com/2025/10/anal...
#writing #writingtips #beginnings #novels #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." ― Sam Levenson
#writing #writinglife #quotes #writingcommunity

Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

Brenda Barker's Next Chapter - Pre-order: tinyurl.com/3yma47m7
"Full of humor & leading with a writer’s heart, Tokunaga’s latest will make readers believe that the Brenda in all of us also deserves our own happily ever after." —Margo Candela, author of The Neapolitan Sisters

Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.” — Robert Benchley #writing #writers #quote #WritingCommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

Try a Little Kindness: Tips on How to Edit or Review Someone Else’s Work writersinthestormblog.com/2025/10/try-...
#writing #editing #feedback #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

First person point of view offers immediacy and intimacy. If done well, it pulls the reader in. But first person is also limited in scope because everything is filtered through the character's knowledge, history, etc. #writing #novels #writingtips #WritingCommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
#writing #quotes #writinglife #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 2d

A good story is more than a series of things that happen. It's all about the cause and effect. blog.janicehardy.com/2012/05/best...
#writing #writingtips #novels #plots #writingcommunity

Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 3d

Pruning the Problem Tree: Tree = Manuscript. Arborist = Structural Editor writerunboxed.com/2025/08/18/p... #editing #novels #revision #writinglife #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 3d

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." ― Sam Levenson
#writing #writinglife #quotes #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 3d

First person point of view offers immediacy and intimacy. If done well, it pulls the reader in. But first person is also limited in scope because everything is filtered through the character's knowledge, history, etc. #writing #novels #writingtips #WritingCommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 3d

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
#writing #quotes #writinglife #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 3d

Analyze First Lines to Write Openings Your Readers Will Love: writersinthestormblog.com/2025/10/anal...
#writing #writingtips #beginnings #novels #writingcommunity

Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 4d

Healing Fiction—With Cats! hayward.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
#writing #reading #healingfiction #cats #books #writingcommunity

Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 4d

"Brenda Barker's Next Chapter" - Now available for pre-order!
tinyurl.com/3yma47m7

"Full of humor and leading with a writer’s heart, Tokunaga’s latest will make readers believe that the Brenda in all of us also deserves our own happily ever after."
—Margo Candela, author of The Neapolitan Sisters

Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 4d

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
#writing #quotes #BrendaBarker #secondchance #motivation #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 4d

A good story is more than a series of things that happen. It's all about the cause and effect. blog.janicehardy.com/2012/05/best...
#writing #writingtips #novels #plots #writingcommunity

Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 4d

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho
#writing #writinglife #secondchance #quotes #BrendaBarker #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 4d

Why Your Book Isn’t Enough (and Why That’s Good News) janefriedman.com/why-your-boo...
#writing #platform #promotion #novels #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 5d

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.” — Robert Benchley #writing #writers #quote #WritingCommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 5d

Older people with more positive self-perceptions of aging live 7.5 years longer than those with a less positive perception of aging.
#writing #BrendaBarker #secondchance #ageism #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 5d

Try a Little Kindness: Tips on How to Edit or Review Someone Else’s Work writersinthestormblog.com/2025/10/try-...
#writing #editing #feedback #writingcommunity

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Wendy Tokunaga @wendytokunaga.bsky.social · 5d

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." — Carl Bard
#writing #secondchance #BrendaBarker #writinglife #writingcommunity #quotes

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