TIGHT5 @WriteTight5

TIGHT5 is an online screenwriting competition platform for BIPOC writers. We aim to inspire, motivate and stimulate Diversity Through Storytelling. tight5.org Joined October 2020

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TIGHT5 @WriteTight5

3 years ago

It's your first day in a new city where you don't speak the language. #WritingPrompt ✏️📝

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3 years ago

“The writer is always researching, paying attention, learning things about people, about experience. All that comes to bear on what you write.” —Julia Alvarez

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3 years ago

“Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.” ― Nicola Yoon #TIGHT5 #DiversityThroughStorytelling

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“The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.” ― Ruth Ozeki #TIGHT5 #DiversityThroughStorytelling

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3 years ago

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. ― Toni Morrison

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3 years ago

“I do believe writing is thinking. Sometimes we can’t untangle what’s happening in our brains, but we get our pen moving and all of a sudden, as we write, we figure it out.” — Elizabeth Acevedo

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3 years ago

Day 01 of having a competent leader running the country. #WritingPrompt ✏️📝

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3 years ago

“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear” ― Isabel Allende

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3 years ago

“Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.” ― Louise Erdrich #TIGHT5 #DiversityThroughStorytelling

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3 years ago

“Everything that I write about, I write from my own experiences. There are bits and pieces of everything that’s in the very fabric of who I am, that help me tell a story.” ― Tyler Perry #TIGHT5 #DiversityThroughStorytelling

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3 years ago

“Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.” ― Assata Shakur

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3 years ago

“The power of story is greater than the power of conversation in a way.” ― Jordan Peele

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3 years ago

You are visiting an alien marketplace with human stuff as products. #WritingPrompt ✏️📝

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3 years ago

“People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.” ― Lucille Clifton

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3 years ago

“If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares, and dreams, you have to fight for it.” ― Alice Walker #TIGHT5 #DiversityThroughStorytelling

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3 years ago

The second half of this year's closing in! Readying your July reads? Here are a few recommendations from @actualgina, @VanessaRiley, @eabwrites, @authorjaycilee, @sisabellewrites: bit.ly/3A8GJFj #writing #diversitythroughstorytelling

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3 years ago

“Broken glass still sparkles when the light hits it. It might even look like diamonds or chandeliers’ jewels. It’s still ruined and in need of repair. Time will fix it, if you live free.” ― Vanessa Riley, Island Queen #TIGHT5 #DiversityThroughStorytelling

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3 years ago

“Life’s not fair, but she doesn’t need it to be fair, because she can take anything life throws at her, and she won’t break.” ― Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

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3 years ago

“Many times, what people call ‘writer’s block’ is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.” ― Pearl Cleage