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Maria Stoica

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Born

Bucharest, Romania

Website

http://stirringsteer.blogspot.com

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Genre

Children's, Fiction

Influences

C S Lewis, Judy Blume, Andrew Clements, Roald Dahl, E B White, Beverly ...more

Member Since

November 2012

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I've always drawn on my school notebooks - dinosaurs, animals, dragons, cartoons, characters and scenes from the books I read until I began drawing my own stories. My favorite place to draw was the math notebook, but I was careful not to discriminate any subject - they all had their share of my drawings.

I went on drawing on notebooks in high school and all over my algorithm books at University. I kept on creating all kinds of stories until I decided to write them instead of just expressing them in endless comic strips.

Now I'm a software developer by day and a writer by night. In between I draw. I like connecting ideas in unlikely ways to create new things the same way you'd connect Lego blocks and then I illustrate them. I publish most of m ...more

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	Coco's Journey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manual de locuințe sociale. Tot ce trebuie să știi despre locuințe sociale by Căși Sociale ACUM!, Paula Boarță, Paula Hulpoi it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Meanwhile in Pyrewood Village

Context: if you visit Pyrewood village in World of Warcraft by day, you will find people. If you visit it by night, you find werewolves.

So I wondered about the daily routines of the villagers.

https://www.deviantart.com/parysaursn...

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“Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them.”
― Maria Stoica

tags: reader, words, writing

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“Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.”
― Robert Hass

tags: poetry

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“Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: words, writing-advice

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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

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“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-life

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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life

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