Wednesday, October 27, 2010








@icypop - Just #ShutUpAndWrite, I always say! =) Thu Jul 22 19:22:48 +0000 2010







#FF to the Crazy Canadian Conflagration of Creative Karma and Continuity @Alex_Carrick and @Donna_Carrick Fri Jul 30 02:04:13 +0000 2010

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds. - Harold Hayes Fri Jul 30 02:01:46 +0000 2010

House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day. - Neil Gaiman Fri Jul 30 01:55:20 +0000 2010

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. - Anatole France Fri Jul 30 01:52:53 +0000 2010

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. - E. M. Forster Fri Jul 30 01:46:44 +0000 2010

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. - F. Scott Fitzgerald Fri Jul 30 01:44:32 +0000 2010

Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself. - Harlan Ellison Fri Jul 30 01:35:41 +0000 2010

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. - Emily Dickinson Thu Jul 29 23:51:04 +0000 2010

Never throw up on an editor. - Ellen Datlow (I'd have to agree with this one) Thu Jul 29 23:46:57 +0000 2010

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written. - Marchette Chute Thu Jul 29 23:42:43 +0000 2010

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license. - Milton Berle Thu Jul 29 23:39:35 +0000 2010

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. ~ Ken Kesey Thu Jul 29 22:53:23 +0000 2010

To hell with facts! We need stories! ~ Ken Kesey Thu Jul 29 22:42:46 +0000 2010

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. ~ Ken Kesey Thu Jul 29 22:32:27 +0000 2010

@DrinkWhatULike - That -- sounds -- like a plan; a good plan. Thu Jul 29 22:31:18 +0000 2010

@natashahollerup -- What happened with yer mom? Thu Jul 29 22:27:46 +0000 2010

@natashahollerup - It's a revolving thing ;) Thu Jul 29 22:24:14 +0000 2010

@DrinkWhatULike - But; I love semi-colons! Thu Jul 29 22:23:22 +0000 2010

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand -- Kurt Vonnegut Thu Jul 29 22:22:33 +0000 2010

@natashahollerup - I'm good. The roomie woke me up early with the vacuum -- which isn't such a bad thing. Thu Jul 29 22:21:50 +0000 2010

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. -- Kurt Vonnegut Thu Jul 29 22:20:58 +0000 2010

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Thu Jul 29 22:19:34 +0000 2010

How is everyone tonight? Thu Jul 29 22:16:33 +0000 2010

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work. ~ Pearl S. Buck Thu Jul 29 22:14:51 +0000 2010
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. ~ Elie Wiesel Thu Jul 29 22:05:55 +0000 2010

@SamTecle - Keep on Truckin': that's my philosophy. Thu Jul 29 22:04:54 +0000 2010

Writing Tip: Everyone has 10,000 bad stories in them. The faster you get rid of them the better. #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Jul 29 22:04:12 +0000 2010

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. ~ William Blake Thu Jul 29 22:03:26 +0000 2010

Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. -- Kurt Vonnegut (LOL) Thu Jul 29 21:57:59 +0000 2010

The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart ~ Goldberg Thu Jul 29 21:54:50 +0000 2010

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.~ Heather Sellers Thu Jul 29 21:52:54 +0000 2010

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ~ Elias Canetti Thu Jul 29 21:51:41 +0000 2010

Thanks for the #WW's - @Corbie77, @DocumentDriven, @GLaCorde, @CrystalPosey, @bleuviolettes, @KiraStann, @VariantVal, @10MinuteWriter Thu Jul 29 21:50:55 +0000 2010

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. ~ Jack Smith Thu Jul 29 21:47:56 +0000 2010

Writing Tip: Everyone has 10,000 bad stories in them. The faster you get rid of them the better. #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Jul 29 08:02:44 +0000 2010

Zz Thu Jul 29 02:37:56 +0000 2010

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind. ~ Edward Abbey Thu Jul 29 02:37:41 +0000 2010

The 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language? -- http://bit.ly/erDZ Thu Jul 29 01:30:30 +0000 2010

G'nite all. Thanks for being =) Wed Jul 28 02:47:55 +0000 2010

@althearicardo - No, I'm David Hunter on Facebook, not The Writers Den LOL Wed Jul 28 02:26:30 +0000 2010

A Writer's Affirmation: Start a new chapter every day of your life ☮Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ¸,,✌•¨°º✽„¸happy scribbling .. .. Wed Jul 28 02:18:28 +0000 2010

Time to #ShutUpAndWrite -- getting late. Later than we know. Wed Jul 28 02:13:56 +0000 2010

The man is killing time - there's nothing else. No help now from the 5th of Bourbon chucked helter-skelter into the river...~ Robert Lowell Wed Jul 28 02:13:05 +0000 2010

@Larked - I've been overwritten? Better than underwritten! Wed Jul 28 02:12:33 +0000 2010

The National Affairs Desk: The Daddy Diaries: http://bit.ly/aQT22R by @JosephLane Wed Jul 28 02:09:17 +0000 2010

@nickolaswriter, @JosephLane -- Thanks for the RT's guys. Nick, I always love your work! Wed Jul 28 02:07:32 +0000 2010

RT @nickolaswriter - Wanna name a book? Chapter 3 of my Unnamed Post-80s Urban Fantasy/Sci-Fi is up! http://is.gd/dKyft Wed Jul 28 02:05:30 +0000 2010

@Carlos_Angelo - I wouldn't change your avatar anyway -- classic! And makes we want an ear of corn. Wed Jul 28 01:58:23 +0000 2010
This should be me -- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1833468239 -- David Hunter Wed Jul 28 01:55:01 +0000 2010

@natashahollerup - Yesh, I know. =P Wed Jul 28 01:53:20 +0000 2010

...And why is there a black bar under my avatar, Twitter?? It was not there before. Wed Jul 28 01:52:34 +0000 2010

You all know I'm on Facebook, right? Getting lonely over there! Wed Jul 28 01:51:55 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - Ha! Well, me too! #ChapterChallenge #ShutUpAndWrite #D'Oh! Wed Jul 28 01:50:56 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - Good luck! Remember, were swapping chapters this weekend! #ShutUpAndWrite Wed Jul 28 01:48:05 +0000 2010

@natashahollerup - Well, I'm glad I haven't been forgotten =) Wed Jul 28 01:47:32 +0000 2010

RT @Ndege ~ Me? I am the nitro in your glycerin. I am the bang of any tamborine. Real sugar. No saccharine. Wed Jul 28 01:47:10 +0000 2010

Writing Tip: Everyone has 10,000 bad stories in them. The faster you get rid of them the better. #ShutUpAndWrite Wed Jul 28 01:46:44 +0000 2010

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. ~ Ray Bradbury #ShutUpAndWrite Wed Jul 28 01:45:26 +0000 2010

Posted an artsy urban graffiti photo at Photo Genesis, 1 of a series -- http://inkypaw.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/behind-the-green-door/ Wed Jul 28 01:41:17 +0000 2010

@natashahollerup - Hola. I'm good. Wed Jul 28 01:39:05 +0000 2010

@juliajtew - Good to hear! #imnotdeadyet Wed Jul 28 01:38:55 +0000 2010

@Ndege - Who are you? Who am I! Wed Jul 28 01:38:31 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - I'm good. Took a Twitter break to get some writing done =) Yes, I #ShutUpAndWrote Wed Jul 28 01:38:14 +0000 2010

Hey Twitter, you still here? Wed Jul 28 01:31:24 +0000 2010

Seems there's only echos left .... Tue Jul 27 04:57:16 +0000 2010

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. ~ Rodney Dangerfield Mon Jul 26 07:46:10 +0000 2010

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. ~ Rodney Dangerfield Mon Jul 26 07:45:40 +0000 2010

3300 followers. Somehow I feel .... the same! Thx # 3300! Sun Jul 25 04:56:46 +0000 2010

@bleuviolettes - Is it a Vintage #ShutUpAndWrite ? Sun Jul 25 04:53:47 +0000 2010

Words never fail me, they just get stuck in traffic. #HaikuBlurb Sun Jul 25 04:51:20 +0000 2010

Ah, so this is when the cool people come out to play. Nice! Sun Jul 25 04:50:38 +0000 2010

@Ndege @sabluvs2write - What happened to the Justin Beaver avatar?? Sun Jul 25 04:49:21 +0000 2010

Okay. 2K or bust. wish me luck everyone. #ShutUpAndWrite Sat Jul 24 16:59:47 +0000 2010

Words never fail me, they just get stuck in traffic. #HaikuBlurb Sat Jul 24 16:41:09 +0000 2010

RT @Alex_Carrick ~ "Words of Wisdom from Ari Noshuns." My personal adviser & alter ego: http://www.alexcarrick.com/?p=1857 Sat Jul 24 16:39:14 +0000 2010

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work. ~ William Gibson Sat Jul 24 16:37:41 +0000 2010

@starry_girl - No, just start mashing those keys! Write some words. #ShutUpAndWrite Sat Jul 24 16:35:15 +0000 2010

RT @aThumper ~ What if there were no hypothetical questions? (Brilliant!) Sat Jul 24 16:33:19 +0000 2010

@starry_girl - It happens to all of us. I'm glad you called it a 'slump' and not ... the other thing LOL Sat Jul 24 16:30:57 +0000 2010

@starry_girl - Slump? How about this: open up a word doc and just start writing anything, get loosened up again. Free-writing =) Sat Jul 24 16:30:15 +0000 2010

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. ~ W. Somerset Maugham Sat Jul 24 16:26:57 +0000 2010

@starry_girl - It's ridiculously humid here -- thus the A/C ... but I'm good. How are you, Starry gal? Sat Jul 24 16:25:43 +0000 2010

Okay, got the A/C cranked (sorry Mr. Gore, it's inconveniently true ..) it's raining, and I'm about to start writing. #ShutUpAndWrite #2K Sat Jul 24 16:22:43 +0000 2010

A Late #FF to @LiteraryNobody =) Sat Jul 24 16:21:05 +0000 2010

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. ~ Steven Wright Sat Jul 24 15:17:52 +0000 2010

If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. ~ Safire Sat Jul 24 15:05:52 +0000 2010

Twitter trends have become indecipherable. Need a code-breaking manual or something LOL Sat Jul 24 15:03:09 +0000 2010

Yes, I often argue with my muse: Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Sat Jul 24 15:01:45 +0000 2010

@cgraceh - Thanks! I was trying a different approach for that post -- glad it worked for you ... Sat Jul 24 15:00:02 +0000 2010

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time." ~ Stephen King Sat Jul 24 14:55:10 +0000 2010

RT @fastonkeys ~ The cure for boredom is curiosity. But be warned, there is no cure for curiosity! - Ellen Parr Sat Jul 24 14:54:08 +0000 2010

"... you must not come lightly to the blank page." — Stephen King Sat Jul 24 14:50:10 +0000 2010

my #ShutUpAndWrite goal today: 2000 words. But after breakfast =) Sat Jul 24 14:49:25 +0000 2010

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain Sat Jul 24 14:48:13 +0000 2010

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary - it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences -Maugham Sat Jul 24 14:44:24 +0000 2010
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. ~ Eugene Ionesco Sat Jul 24 14:40:34 +0000 2010

@jjdanz @marisabirns - I'm still waiting for judgment to kick in too: running on silly optimism! Sat Jul 24 14:39:10 +0000 2010

RT @bcollinspoetry --The birds are in their trees, the toast is in the toaster and the poets are at their windows. (Perfect ..) Sat Jul 24 14:37:37 +0000 2010

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. - Ben Franklin Sat Jul 24 14:34:37 +0000 2010

#FF to Good @morningporch =) Sat Jul 24 14:32:04 +0000 2010

Every word is born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. ~ Etty Hillesum Sat Jul 24 14:30:06 +0000 2010

#FF to VariantVal, @Ndege, and @JosephLane -- my pals =) Sat Jul 24 14:29:40 +0000 2010

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. - Dr. Seuss #ShutUpAndWrite Sat Jul 24 14:27:14 +0000 2010

#FF to my ShutUpAndWrite cohorts @natashahollerup, @10MinuteWriter, @LaynaPimentel Sat Jul 24 14:26:17 +0000 2010

#FF luv to @GLaCorde, @Donna_Carrick, @Daisyface1, and @SDAndrsn_Author =) Sat Jul 24 14:24:04 +0000 2010

#FF luv 'n spirit to @_decode_, @LaynaPimentel, @ventus_17, @KiraStann, @NotSoBadLit, @ficwriter, @DocumentDriven, and @LornaSuzuki Sat Jul 24 14:22:59 +0000 2010

#FF luv to @KarenOleet, @Daisyface1, @JulesJeffs, @stacenator28, @10MinuteWriter, @Misteism, @DanMcNeil888, and @DaveBartlett1 Sat Jul 24 14:21:10 +0000 2010

Morning all! >Yawn< >Stretch< >Urk!< (Wherz brekfast mumble mumble) Sat Jul 24 14:14:29 +0000 2010

Last Call: Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? - http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Sat Jul 24 14:13:11 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? - http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 07:56:06 +0000 2010

Before I go, here's a favorite post of mine: The Beachcomber - http://bit.ly/dzntZn (G'nite all!) Fri Jul 23 04:11:55 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 03:27:53 +0000 2010

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. ~ Gene Wolfe Fri Jul 23 03:11:18 +0000 2010

@Donna_Carrick - Me too. Been a good night though. Thanks for the #FF mention =) Fri Jul 23 03:09:07 +0000 2010

@devinharnois - I'll be the first to read it =) Fri Jul 23 03:08:36 +0000 2010

@Donna_Carrick - It's good. Wrote a post last night at 12 AM -- something just came over me! I must be bitten by the writing bug. Fri Jul 23 03:06:19 +0000 2010

#FF to the Rembrandts of the Writers Regimental Roll call: @Aleck_Carrick and @Donna_Carrick Fri Jul 23 03:02:07 +0000 2010

Thank you all for the day's iǸ§PЇℜņЇ0Ńs ❧❀❧♥¸.•*¨*•♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Fri Jul 23 02:59:22 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - G'nite Layna. Happy dreams, and good scribbling to you! #ShutUpAndWrite Fri Jul 23 02:56:46 +0000 2010

@devinharnois - Thanks for the kind words though. Glad you liked the post. Fri Jul 23 02:55:22 +0000 2010

@devinharnois - Hey, we're all different, right? I like outlines, exploring the novel in depth, seeing what's possible. Fri Jul 23 02:54:54 +0000 2010

@TeamEverWing - I'd love to talk to Tolkien, but I'd be too intimidated! I'd have to speak the Queen's English! Fri Jul 23 02:41:08 +0000 2010

Thanks to all of you for visiting the Den today. Warms my heart! http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 02:40:11 +0000 2010

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. ~ Will Shetterly #ShutUpAndWrite Fri Jul 23 02:38:27 +0000 2010

If you could have a conversation with any writer living or dead, what would you talk about? I'll even publish your piece at the Den! Fri Jul 23 02:34:52 +0000 2010

@Voxyldy - Poets count, sure! I'd love to sit down with Ginsberg, or Whitman, or Frost. Fri Jul 23 02:34:20 +0000 2010

Don't fear making a mistake; fear failing to learn and move forward. ~ Philip Humbert Fri Jul 23 02:31:51 +0000 2010

Point of Information: the Past tense of #ShutUpAndWrite is #ShutUpAndWrote =) Fri Jul 23 02:30:44 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - Cough! Was that one chapter or two? #ShutUpAndWrite Fri Jul 23 02:29:49 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - I can't keep track of it! Now what? LOL #ShutUpAndWrite Fri Jul 23 02:26:21 +0000 2010

If you could have a conversation with any writer living or dead, what would you talk about? I'll even publish your piece at the Den .. =) Fri Jul 23 02:24:43 +0000 2010

Is anyone interested in a writing prompt? I have a good one. Fri Jul 23 02:21:52 +0000 2010

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way. ~ Ernest Hemingway Fri Jul 23 02:18:57 +0000 2010

Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at. ~ David Gerrold Fri Jul 23 02:18:35 +0000 2010

Yikes! So many #ShutUpAndWrite 'rs ... I'll have to give out a mass award this week! (Click the Hashtag!) Fri Jul 23 02:17:58 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 02:13:05 +0000 2010

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly. ~ C. J. Cherryh Fri Jul 23 02:12:12 +0000 2010

There is no great writing, only great rewriting. ~ Justice Brandeis Fri Jul 23 02:09:50 +0000 2010

RT @allgreatquotes "Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle." - Woody Allen Fri Jul 23 02:00:44 +0000 2010

@JosephMulak - Thanks for the RT. Awful nice of you! Fri Jul 23 01:59:25 +0000 2010

There's people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old - Saarinen Fri Jul 23 01:48:29 +0000 2010
Sometimes I go on Tweet binges -- my apologies! Fri Jul 23 01:43:23 +0000 2010

@CherylAnneNY - Thank you. I try to give only the best, because I only have the best followers =) Fri Jul 23 01:35:14 +0000 2010

Does the world need another writer? Read 'Room for Me', by @KiraStann ~ http://bit.ly/cVDAtA Fri Jul 23 01:30:05 +0000 2010

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~ Franklin Jones Fri Jul 23 01:26:25 +0000 2010

@LornaSuzuki - I am, actually. Thanks for sending it. That was nice of you ... =) Fri Jul 23 01:24:02 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - Gack! I'll never abandon my paper backs! Fri Jul 23 01:23:19 +0000 2010

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ~ Alfred Hitchcock (Thanks Hitch ..) Fri Jul 23 01:22:47 +0000 2010

Genius is not a quality, but only a quantitative difference in a combination of attributes contained in all persons. ~ Dr. Ernst Jones Fri Jul 23 01:21:03 +0000 2010

RT @KiraStann RT @elizabethscraig: Seven Writing Sins: Greed: http://dld.bz/ntCg @catwoods Fri Jul 23 01:19:34 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - I'm not that Technological yet -- stuck with paper and ink =) Fri Jul 23 01:18:32 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? A Conversation with my Muse -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 01:17:40 +0000 2010

It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. ~ Gaston Bachelard Fri Jul 23 01:16:45 +0000 2010

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt #ShutUpAndWrite Fri Jul 23 01:13:43 +0000 2010

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work. ~ William Gibson Fri Jul 23 01:12:25 +0000 2010

@NomadicQuill - #ShutUpAndWrite is as much for me, I need the kick in the pants too =) Fri Jul 23 01:11:55 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - I have a fantasy series in my back pocket, did you know that? Fri Jul 23 01:10:55 +0000 2010

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps if you have a plan and a course laid out. ~ John Gardner Fri Jul 23 01:10:29 +0000 2010

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out. ~ E. M. Forster Fri Jul 23 01:09:39 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - Most fantasy series' don't keep my attention much either, but #Imago is great so far. Fri Jul 23 01:08:34 +0000 2010

I owe my success to listening respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~ G. K. Chesterton Fri Jul 23 01:07:27 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - And on the bus to work I've been reading books on Novel Writing. Typical, huh? Fri Jul 23 01:03:46 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - So far I'm loving Imago. I haven't had much time for reading lately, but I've been reading a little. Fri Jul 23 01:02:57 +0000 2010

@_decode_ @LaynaPimentel - Any particular magazine ??? I only read Writers Digest LOL but only for the articles. Fri Jul 23 01:01:45 +0000 2010

@_decode_ @LaynaPimentel - Food always gets a male's attention (along with the other thing ... a good book!) Fri Jul 23 00:58:47 +0000 2010
For your edification, I wrote this post on a whim at 12 PM last night: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 00:57:54 +0000 2010

RT @LaynaPimentel - ... a pb and jam sandwich washed down with tea. ;-) (Hey! Stop making me hungry!) #TeaPB&JSammichFreaks Fri Jul 23 00:56:07 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - Funny, food doesn't come up in my stories too often. Reverse Symbolism?? Fri Jul 23 00:54:43 +0000 2010

@LS_SA - I love that book -- I wonder If Anne would have become a famous author had she lived? I think so. Fri Jul 23 00:53:37 +0000 2010

I like to write when I feel spiteful: it's like having a good sneeze. ~ D.H.Lawrence Fri Jul 23 00:52:34 +0000 2010

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read" ~ Hilaire Belloc - Epitaph Fri Jul 23 00:48:24 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel ~ I may just forget dinner and just write. I could stand to lose a couple pounds, and gain some words =) Fri Jul 23 00:47:24 +0000 2010

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to - Fay Weldon Fri Jul 23 00:46:18 +0000 2010

@KiraStann - Be careful, you may end up with a #ShutUpAndWrite award LOL Fri Jul 23 00:44:58 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? A Conversation with my Muse -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 00:42:51 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - It's been good. Just woke up from my nap, and now wondering about dinner ... Fri Jul 23 00:41:32 +0000 2010

@KiraStann - Thanks. I was trying to present the difficult nature of novel-writing in a .... novel way LOL Fri Jul 23 00:40:05 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - Hey! How are you? Fri Jul 23 00:39:11 +0000 2010

The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done. ~ John Steinbeck Fri Jul 23 00:37:23 +0000 2010

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder. ~ Raymond Chandler Fri Jul 23 00:35:41 +0000 2010

@KiraStann - Thank you so much for the RT =) Fri Jul 23 00:34:19 +0000 2010

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. ~ Marcel Proust Fri Jul 23 00:31:46 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? A Conversation with my Muse: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 00:30:03 +0000 2010

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: 'Fool!' said my Muse to me,'look in thy heart and write.' ~ Sir Philip Sidney Fri Jul 23 00:29:08 +0000 2010

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. ~ Gustave Flaubert Fri Jul 23 00:25:21 +0000 2010

Late #WW thanks -- @DocumentDriven, @ficwriter, @DanMcNeil888, @10MinuteWriter, @ventus_17, and Oxford Comma'd @VariantVal Fri Jul 23 00:23:42 +0000 2010

@NomadicQuill, @aboutbooks, @robsad79 - Thanks for the RT's =) Fri Jul 23 00:21:50 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? - http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Fri Jul 23 00:17:34 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Thanks Bro. Thu Jul 22 19:23:16 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Thu Jul 22 18:32:10 +0000 2010

RT @kestrelrising ~ Goodbye my friend ~ http://kestrelrising.blogspot.com/2010/07/friend-remembered.html (Feel like crying right now..) Thu Jul 22 05:31:25 +0000 2010

Writing a Novel is Easy? Since When? ~ http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Thu Jul 22 05:14:46 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel @10MinuteWriter =) Wed Jul 21 01:21:42 +0000 2010

RT @denyseduhaime ~ Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~ Author Unknown Wed Jul 21 01:21:22 +0000 2010

I am in #ShutUpAndWrite mode. So far it's working =) Wed Jul 21 01:12:56 +0000 2010

RT @Alyssa_Milano ~ GROUPHUG~ Get in. Tue Jul 20 04:00:44 +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 Tue Jul 20 02:53:12 +0000 2010

@10MinuteWriter - How about: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.." Tue Jul 20 00:43:15 +0000 2010

@10MinuteWriter - Ack. Really? For true? #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Jul 20 00:40:27 +0000 2010

Okay, time to get scribbling. If you need me for any literary emergencies, just Tweet. #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Jul 20 00:27:15 +0000 2010

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Tue Jul 20 00:25:29 +0000 2010

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. — Jack Kerouac Tue Jul 20 00:22:41 +0000 2010

Still can't change my Avatar. Darn, I was going to put up a picture of me snuggling Llamas in Peru and drinking Corn Beer! Tue Jul 20 00:21:31 +0000 2010

@Ndege - You are always missed, my friend =) Tue Jul 20 00:18:56 +0000 2010

@ShadyMutton - Yeah, all adults do is walk around with long faces and complain about everything! Phhftthbtbt! Tue Jul 20 00:18:13 +0000 2010

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. — Jack Kerouac Tue Jul 20 00:16:38 +0000 2010

@ShadyMutton - Growing up ...? Not in my immediate plans either. Tue Jul 20 00:15:15 +0000 2010

@Ndege - Page 50 or so. Trying to get the first draft down. Tue Jul 20 00:14:33 +0000 2010

@ShadyMutton - Shade of Mutton! Kids grow up?? Tue Jul 20 00:13:20 +0000 2010

@Ndege - Friday? I have been fine. Been writing a lot, eating a lot, and ____ a lot. Tue Jul 20 00:11:10 +0000 2010

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