I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.Anne Rice, American author
- 7th January
2013 - 07
- 23rd November
2012 - 23
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.Leo Rosten - Teacher, academic and humorist
- 23rd October
2012 - 23
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films
- 20th October
2012 - 20
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.Anais Nin, French-Cuban author
- 9th October
2012 - 09
The desire to write grows with writing.Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher and theologian
- 15th June
2012 - 15
Organized Chaos
Story of my life.
For years, I’ve kept a series of Composition Books, stuffed with scraps of paper that I’ve frantically written down ideas, lines, notes, etc. They’ve become my journals, of sorts, not documenting my daily routine, but my reactions to things as they’ve happened. My musings, as you’ve seen posted recently. It’s a way I sort through my sanity.
I’ve been revisiting these pages a lot lately, finding lines and notes and thoughts I’ve found relevant or particularly like the wording of. More often than not, I’m hoping to get some of them out there as a way to filter through and find lines I want to be sure to keep. I find words from two, three, four years ago, and I’ve put them up as a means of organizing a bit of the chaos.
So these you see here, have littered not only my desk, but this blog.
Once I find a few things I’ve written recently that I like, I’ll be sure to post those too. Out with the old, and up with the new in the next month or two, I hope. For now, the old words from years and dramatic episodes past will have to do.
- 15th June
2012 - 15
Well, I’ve Been Pulled In …
A friend of mine, in comment to one of my posts, asked if I was going to do the NaNoWriMo.
I, oblivious as usual, wrote back that I’d consider it if I knew what the heck he was talking about!
The “National Novel Writing Month,” as he explained, will be coming up this fall, and sounds like one fun challenge to write 50,000 words in a month’s time. Intrigued! So I best practice up and get ready for the big event.
And thanks to my friend for bringing it up!
- 7th June
2012 - 07
WriteWorld: Writing Advice from Neil Gaiman
1 Write.
2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you…
(via youllhavetoburymetwice)
- 17th May
2012 - 17
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
(Source: vintageanchorbooks)
- 13th May
2012 - 13
Silence cannot hide anything - which is more than you can say for words.From the play “The Ghost Sonata” by Swedish author-playwright August Strindberg (born 1849, died May 14, 1912)
