@LornaSuzuki - At that rate, I'm sure the quality suffered a tad. I'd rather write 10 GOOD books than 500 mediocre ones =) Fri Sep 03 00:00:50 +0000 2010
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. ~ Maynard James Keenan Thu Sep 02 02:53:59 +0000 2010
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. ~ Tennessee Williams Thu Sep 02 02:50:02 +0000 2010
Terry Fox's run for cancer ended 30 years ago today - watch this ESPN special: http://litgas.blogspot.com/p/audio-visual.html Thu Sep 02 02:37:42 +0000 2010
@Ndege @VariantVal - There are only a few Vets here in Toronto who will even work on a rabbit. I guess it's specialized ... Thu Sep 02 02:14:56 +0000 2010
@VariantVal - Jessie is good. She's eating on her own now, but it's mushy food. She ate a piece of apple the other day ... =) Thu Sep 02 01:58:30 +0000 2010
RT @Miriclaire ~ Friend to the ocean ~ Moon travels through night's pathway ~ sister to the stars #haiku #haikuThrowdown Wed Sep 01 02:54:58 +0000 2010
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. ~ Annie Dillard Wed Sep 01 02:39:19 +0000 2010
@LornaSuzuki - As soon as the weather breaks, meaning if the temperature goes down to a reasonable level, I'll be on more frequently ... Wed Sep 01 02:23:37 +0000 2010
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ~ Cyril Connolly Wed Sep 01 02:08:54 +0000 2010
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. ~ Lawrence Durrell Wed Sep 01 02:00:54 +0000 2010
Literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Wed Sep 01 01:05:02 +0000 2010
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living - Cyril Connolly Wed Sep 01 00:24:07 +0000 2010
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan Tue Aug 31 01:46:18 +0000 2010
If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. ~ Willa Cather Tue Aug 31 01:20:12 +0000 2010
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. ~ Pearl S. Buck Tue Aug 31 01:14:48 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - The Techie will show you. I'm getting scared! Must back up my files now #GhostintheMachine Tue Aug 31 01:11:10 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - No, you take the hard drive OUT, and plug it into this encasement, then use another computer, download all your files. Tue Aug 31 01:10:06 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - Get an external thingy to plug your hard drive into, so you can retrieve your work. I'm getting one too. Tue Aug 31 01:05:29 +0000 2010
@BevStubbs - All joking aside, it's tough when you get into a rut like that. I think the only way is to smash through; just write anything. Tue Aug 31 00:59:52 +0000 2010
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison Tue Aug 31 00:58:35 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - I'm gearing up for a Fall return to blogging. I've been on hiatus working on the book. Glad Mad Matt is back ... Tue Aug 31 00:55:43 +0000 2010
@BevStubbs - Two weeks without writing?? Yikes. I want you to open a fresh Word Doc and just write something fun. Hurry! Tue Aug 31 00:54:17 +0000 2010
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~ Stephen King Tue Aug 31 00:52:35 +0000 2010
I missed you @JoLynneValerie - remember to follow this lovely and talented writer =) #FF #WW and the rest of the alphabet Tue Aug 31 00:45:34 +0000 2010
The following is a public service announcement by @TheWritersDen: #ShutUpAndWrite, because you can! Tue Aug 31 00:42:44 +0000 2010
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ~ Stephen King Tue Aug 31 00:41:16 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - You'd love the Ex - so many buildings to explore: The Arts, The Farm, The Shopping Mall! The various Beer Tents! Tue Aug 31 00:38:57 +0000 2010
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it. - Ernest Hemingway Tue Aug 31 00:29:36 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - The Buildings at the Ex have become more interesting to me than the rides. Can't handle the stomach flips anymore =P Tue Aug 31 00:29:16 +0000 2010
I get a lot of letters from people saying "I want to be a writer" - I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it. ~ Ruth Rendell Tue Aug 31 00:26:35 +0000 2010
The CNE, for the uninitiated, is the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. We also call it 'The Ex": http://www.theex.com/ Tue Aug 31 00:24:37 +0000 2010
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else. — Zadie Smith Tue Aug 31 00:17:07 +0000 2010
Lit Bits: John Steinbeck's Letter to Beginning Writers: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/p/lit-bits.html Tue Aug 31 00:15:39 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - Amazing how busy life gets. This is the first chance I've gotten to get back at the computer in a week! Mon Aug 30 23:51:56 +0000 2010
@goodeenuff - You should go do it. Blogs are wonderful ... i enjoy working on mine, designing it, filling it up with words ... Sat Aug 21 04:57:30 +0000 2010
@goodeenuff - I'd love to follow any blog of yours! You have such great historical facts and figures! Sat Aug 21 04:51:10 +0000 2010
@goodeenuff - I'm doing well, getting a lot of words down on my WIP -- haven't had much time for anything Twitter related lately. Sat Aug 21 04:36:36 +0000 2010
@goodeenuff - SInce I implemented my #ShutUpAndWrite credo I've been doing well -- and all my Twitter folks have been inspirational! Sat Aug 21 04:33:55 +0000 2010
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. ~ Spike Milligan Sat Aug 21 04:16:11 +0000 2010
@GabbyTheLizard - My literary hero is Edward Abbey, and some of the stuff I read about him is tough to digest, but what a writer. Sat Aug 21 03:48:44 +0000 2010
@GabbyTheLizard - Right. These quotes are for the reader to interpret as they like, good or bad. That's the nature of the beast =) Sat Aug 21 03:46:32 +0000 2010
@deleeze - I never considered what I do here a "marketing strategy". If it was, I'd be out of business! Thanks for the wise words ... Sat Aug 21 03:43:40 +0000 2010
@GabbyTheLizard - Sometimes I regret learning about my literary heroes: sometimes I find they have feet of clay, they're human. Sat Aug 21 03:42:16 +0000 2010
We shall see who is the one that will be saying nonsensical things that are sensing of nonsense. ༺༻ Inspector Clouseau Sat Aug 21 03:40:31 +0000 2010
#FF @elm8 - I'll say it again: I have the most fabulous and heartfelt followers on Twitter, and they all relish silliness once in a while. Sat Aug 21 03:25:51 +0000 2010
@_decode_ - I was being my usual sarcastic self =) I could never be anti-silly -- only anti-negative. Sat Aug 21 03:22:44 +0000 2010
It's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac Sat Aug 21 02:29:20 +0000 2010
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. ~ Carl Sandburg Sat Aug 21 02:26:34 +0000 2010
This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put - Winston Churchill RE: Ending a sentence with a preposition Sat Aug 21 02:23:42 +0000 2010
Getting to that time. Soon it'll be me and the moonglow and the night and the words. Not in that order either. #ShutUpAndWrite Sat Aug 21 02:14:48 +0000 2010
@joe_hill - Your Tweets have a refreshing candor about them -- so any 140 characters of yours are welcome, in my book. #FF Sat Aug 21 02:11:32 +0000 2010
@Ndege @VariantVal - U 2 r the best (Enjoy this rare use of lead-speak -- it may not happen again) Sat Aug 21 02:07:43 +0000 2010
There have been many, many rejections. If you want to write it your own way, that's the chance you take. - Marchette Chute Sat Aug 21 02:06:28 +0000 2010
I love this time of night: it's my WRITE time. Plus, the moon is emerging from a bank of clouds ... dramatic ... Sat Aug 21 01:58:15 +0000 2010
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides right through the brain and goes straight to the heart. - Maya Angelou Sat Aug 21 01:56:45 +0000 2010
Writers have an island, a center of refuge within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place. - Wright Morris Sat Aug 21 01:46:10 +0000 2010
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