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
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
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
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
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
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 - 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
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
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
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 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
@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
@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
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
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
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
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
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 - 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
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
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
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
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
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
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