It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. -E.B. White I really like this quote. Seriously, my little group of writing rebels lights up my life. Rebels because they write against all odds. They write in the middle of the night and early morning. After work, thinkingContinue reading “My Writing Friends”
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Make Up a Story
“Make up a story… For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul.” – ToniContinue reading “Make Up a Story”
The Purge
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” – Ernest Hemingway I’m at the point in my editing process where I’m deleting and getting right to the point. I know the story. Now, to get rid of all the parts that motivatedContinue reading “The Purge”
If you could choose which writer would you have dinner with?
“Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood, reduced to a withering weed.” -UrsulaContinue reading “If you could choose which writer would you have dinner with?”
Latest Rabbit Hole
“The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen … Perhaps it can’t be done without the poet, but it certainly can’t be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other.Continue reading “Latest Rabbit Hole”
The Magic of Writing
The magic of writing comes exactly when you learn to expect it. Has this happened to you while you were writing? Have you written and then bam, it all makes complete sense in a different way than you intended? And not only that, the new way is even better? Or have you written about somethingContinue reading “The Magic of Writing”
Who Do You Write For?
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.” ― Margaret Atwood I started out writing for excellent grades. The whole grading system really gives me anxiety, probably to prove something to my past self. Honestly, I just want to learnContinue reading “Who Do You Write For?”
Freedom in Fiction
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it” – Roald Dahl I’m not sure I believe in absolute freedom. What I can say is that for me, writing is theContinue reading “Freedom in Fiction”
Three things to write every night.
“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.” – Ernest Hemingway Three thing to write every night that will lead to a more fulfilling life. What are you writing? How’s your book coming? Poetry?
Inspired Plans
We’ll be wrapping up July this week, and wow! We made it! I spent today in the sunshine planning out my next few days. Not in detail since the stay-at-home mom life requires flexibility, but just enough to inspire me. There’s a writer who says he writes just enough to keep writing the next day.Continue reading “Inspired Plans”
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