Quest By Georgia Douglas Johnson The phantom happiness I sought O’er every crag and moor; I paused at every postern gate, And knocked at every door; In vain I searched the land and sea, E’en to the inmost core, The curtains of eternal night Descend—my search is o’er. This poem hit home for meContinue reading “Needed this Poem”
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Details
“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.” – Ernest Hemingway There’s plenty of words to add intimate details, but it’s the feeling you want to convey. Tiny details are great. I appreciate well-timed details that pace the story, but at the same time, details can takeContinue reading “Details”
Now Back to Regularly Scheduled Programming
This weekend was jam-packed with celebrating my husband’s birthday and our anniversary. Now I’m tired from trying to keep up. I’m excited that this is my last year in my thirties. I look forward to growing older and wiser. The way to a good life surely is good friends and family. I wouldn’t trade anyContinue reading “Now Back to Regularly Scheduled Programming”
Words have Power
“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain “The forces of my writing -the power of my words -could swallow me whole if I let them. But I’ve learned to taper them. Tape them toContinue reading “Words have Power”
Letting Go
My inner work this week is to focus on letting go of old beliefs. It feels like I’m walking in uncharted territory. It took me a couple of weeks to get into a new routine, but I think I’ve gotten a good idea of my energy levels along with the actions I’m ready to focusContinue reading “Letting Go”
The Forces of My Writing
The forces of my writing -the power of my words -could swallow me whole if I let them. But I’ve learned to taper them. Tape them to walls and use them to patch holes in my heart and my thighs and the small of my back -the place he never brushed to gently guide meContinue reading “The Forces of My Writing”
About Reading and Writing
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost My first question, is there such thing as too many surprises? I like surprises, but I also like to know things. I do appreciate a good surprise cry in a story. oh. IContinue reading “About Reading and Writing”
James Baldwin
“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.” — James Baldwin, Notes ofContinue reading “James Baldwin”
George R.R. Martin on Types of Writers
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kindContinue reading “George R.R. Martin on Types of Writers”
Happy Autumn!
Today is the Autumn equinox! “A carefully worded answer is that on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 8:44 a.m. Eastern daylight time (5:44 a.m. Pacific daylight time) autumn begins astronomically in the Northern Hemisphere, and spring in the Southern. At that moment, the sun would be shining directly overhead as seen from a point in the equatorial AtlanticContinue reading “Happy Autumn!”
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