Saturday, October 30, 2010

  Archived Pile of Twitter Feed No. 10 || @TheWritersDen





 Oh, whimsical notion, we hardly knew ye. - Bloom County Thu Sep 09 01:34:05 +0000 2010

   





@VariantVal @LaynaPimentel - Hullo you two! How are you? Wed Sep 22 01:10:06 +0000 2010

Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:09:37 +0000 2010

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:08:11 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - Val! =) Wed Sep 22 01:07:10 +0000 2010

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:04:50 +0000 2010

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:01:03 +0000 2010

The road goes ever on ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:57:28 +0000 2010

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:56:00 +0000 2010

@RBlackbirdsong - =) Awful nice of you ... I'm good, just living and writing (not exactly in that order either) Wed Sep 22 00:54:42 +0000 2010

@MeganWrites1 - Tolkien was a classic -- wasn't he? Wed Sep 22 00:53:32 +0000 2010

The Hobbit was published this day in 1937 -- BBC || Tolkien Interview: http://bit.ly/9CNUie Wed Sep 22 00:51:58 +0000 2010

You can only come to the morning through the shadows. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:50:55 +0000 2010

Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:46:14 +0000 2010

Not all who wander are lost. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:42:53 +0000 2010

@22DanielleM - Which nightmare? Did I miss a Twitter nightmare? Wed Sep 22 00:42:17 +0000 2010

RT and Lovin It: @EditorMark -- More than 400 tweeted tips on grammar, usage and style on one searchable page: http://bit.ly/btbPtQ. Wed Sep 22 00:40:33 +0000 2010

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:39:27 +0000 2010

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. ~ Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:37:54 +0000 2010

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. ~ Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:36:47 +0000 2010

Little by little, one travels far. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 00:35:54 +0000 2010

The Hobbit was published this day in 1937 -- BBC || Tolkien Interview: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 22 00:08:59 +0000 2010

J.R.R. Tolkien || BBC Interview: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 21 23:48:48 +0000 2010

Gotta go. Read my blog while I'm gone! -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 21 07:49:57 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I'm usually here when you're not, and not here when you are. Or something. =) Tue Sep 21 07:49:11 +0000 2010

Off to work I go. I order you all to have a great day =) Tue Sep 21 07:47:24 +0000 2010

~ Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules For Writing, plus video: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 21 07:42:19 +0000 2010

Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules For Writing, plus video: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 21 02:04:15 +0000 2010

Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. — Judy Blume Tue Sep 21 01:00:02 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - 50,000 words? In a month? Don't know If I can make it through either. Tue Sep 21 00:59:16 +0000 2010

Well, can't tweet to myself all night, time to #ShutUpAndWrite. Later Y'all .... Tue Sep 21 00:58:16 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - I must do #NaNo this year. At least to say I tried LOL Tue Sep 21 00:56:23 +0000 2010

Writer's Digest Short Story Competition -- http://www.writersdigest.com/short Tue Sep 21 00:51:24 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - I'm working on the novel, plus a story for the Writer's Digest short story contest ... Tue Sep 21 00:48:56 +0000 2010

So this is the new Twitter, huh? Looks suspiciously like the old Twitter. #NoChangeYet Tue Sep 21 00:44:38 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - I'm okay. Just writing. Who says writers lead exciting lives?? Tue Sep 21 00:42:19 +0000 2010

I have this feeling that I better #ShutUpAndWrite -- it's eerily quiet on my stream Zz Tue Sep 21 00:41:14 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - You! How are you? Tue Sep 21 00:38:30 +0000 2010

How's everyone tonight? I'm okay, just scribblin' and writin' .... Tue Sep 21 00:35:19 +0000 2010

Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules For Writing: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 21 00:34:25 +0000 2010

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. ~ Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules For Writing: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 21 00:27:24 +0000 2010

The Campfire Pages Halloween Special: Got a scary story? Come join the fun --- http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Mon Sep 20 07:54:06 +0000 2010

The Campfire Pages Halloween Special: Got a scary story? Come join the fun -- http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Mon Sep 20 03:28:58 +0000 2010

Have a great weekend all. Thanks for all the mentions ... =) Sat Sep 18 01:50:00 +0000 2010

Be right back =) Sat Sep 18 00:25:47 +0000 2010

#FF to these talented ladies, @PeevishPenman, @LaynaPimentel and @ggSpirit Sat Sep 18 00:25:08 +0000 2010

#FF thanks to @DanMcNeil888, @22DanielleM, @EJStevensAuthor Sat Sep 18 00:23:42 +0000 2010

At the Den - Stephen King talks about the art of Short Stories: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/p/audio-visual.html Sat Sep 18 00:16:26 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @VariantVal - If only I had a transporter, I'd take you both. That'd be quite a weekend ... =) Sat Sep 18 00:14:45 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - I'm good. Getting ready to go away for the weekend, up north to the cottage. Tired ... Sat Sep 18 00:12:22 +0000 2010

#FF thanks to @SDAndrsn_Author, @WendySparrow, @marina0111, @KiraStann, @KarenOleet, and @Kno_Thyself =) Sat Sep 18 00:09:58 +0000 2010

#FF thanks to @AMWriter, @MerleChloe, @911editing, @DaveBartlett1, @Donna_Carrick and @AlexCarrick Sat Sep 18 00:08:51 +0000 2010

To my Twitter diehards @VariantVal, @Ndege, @JosephLane #followfriday Sat Sep 18 00:02:24 +0000 2010

Twitter, you may want to roll out your #newtwitter a little faster than one person at a time. Fri Sep 17 01:41:42 +0000 2010

A short story I wrote: The Underwood Effect - http://bit.ly/bduurL #Comedy #Fiction #StoryZone Fri Sep 17 01:32:58 +0000 2010

My first tweet by iPhone. Yay. Fri Sep 17 00:20:35 +0000 2010

I just got an iPhone! #Catharsis Thu Sep 16 21:50:50 +0000 2010

G'nite you two. Don't let the .... bedbugs .... bite @LornaSuzuki @JosephLane Thu Sep 16 03:00:04 +0000 2010

Goodnight Twitter. It's been fun as always Zz Thu Sep 16 02:57:22 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Well Joe, you may be right. We'll see ... Thu Sep 16 02:56:12 +0000 2010

@LadyKaguraX - Hm. Well, keep trying. You'll find those enduring characters eventually ... =) Thu Sep 16 02:51:09 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - If they leave Burkie in there for the next ten years or so everything will be fine, but ... #YouKnowTheDrill Thu Sep 16 02:49:55 +0000 2010

@LadyKaguraX - Haven't you ever fallen in love with a character you made up, and want the world to meet them? Thu Sep 16 02:45:24 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Yup. Too many GM's over the years, too many different agendas. Thu Sep 16 02:44:15 +0000 2010

@theangrymick - Thanks -- I was experimenting with different ways to write blog posts and figured a short story would work. Thu Sep 16 02:40:43 +0000 2010

Thanks for the RT @racheldillin =) Thu Sep 16 02:39:21 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - The way Washington and Pittsburgh are built, I don't think the Leafs or Habs will be winning for a while. Thu Sep 16 02:38:06 +0000 2010

@amyjosprague - It was an experiment actually -- To see If I could sit down and write a story in one sitting. It's difficult LOL Thu Sep 16 02:32:44 +0000 2010

Thanks for the RTs @amyjosprague, @theangrymick =) #WW Thu Sep 16 02:30:22 +0000 2010

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. ~ Isabel Allende Thu Sep 16 02:28:16 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Nevertheless, you are cordially invited to the Leafs Cup parade in 2013. #LeafsRule Thu Sep 16 02:27:24 +0000 2010

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. ~ Octavia Butler Thu Sep 16 02:26:16 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Dude ... #LeafsRule Thu Sep 16 02:23:13 +0000 2010

A short story I wrote: The Underwood Effect - http://bit.ly/bduurL #Comedy #Fiction #StoryZone Thu Sep 16 02:17:00 +0000 2010

Add your story link to #StoryZone so we can all share =) Thu Sep 16 02:15:32 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Fall 'ain't so bad, but winter .... any way we can skip directly to spring? Thu Sep 16 02:14:15 +0000 2010

@amyjosprague - I'm loving this story -- thanks for sharing it =) Thu Sep 16 02:11:50 +0000 2010

If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. ~ Ray Bradbury Thu Sep 16 02:09:42 +0000 2010

@Allison_Brennan - Thanks! http://sevendeadlysinsbooks.com Thu Sep 16 02:05:48 +0000 2010

@WendySparrow - I read all types: mainstream, crime, fantasy, sci-fi -- if it's a story, I'll read it =) Thu Sep 16 02:00:47 +0000 2010

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ~ Rudyard Kipling Thu Sep 16 01:57:30 +0000 2010

Anyone got a short story I can read? I feel like reading tonight. #StoryZone Thu Sep 16 01:56:27 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - It seems I'm running into sleep deprivations again. It'll be worse when hockey season begins LOL Thu Sep 16 01:52:21 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Yer welcome. How's everything with you? Thu Sep 16 01:44:55 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - I accept your *smoojies* Thu Sep 16 01:42:58 +0000 2010

#WW to @JosephLane, literary brother, ornery hombre, good guy. Thu Sep 16 01:38:40 +0000 2010

A short story I wrote: The Underwood Effect - http://bit.ly/bduurL #Comedy #Fiction Thu Sep 16 01:37:32 +0000 2010

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. — Muriel Rukeyser Thu Sep 16 01:31:20 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - Too much credit?? Your always writing! =) Thu Sep 16 01:27:49 +0000 2010

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. — Doris Lessing Thu Sep 16 01:24:43 +0000 2010
#WW to this insanely creative chick, @VariantVal Thu Sep 16 01:23:42 +0000 2010

#WW to possibly the hardest working writer in my whole tweet stream, @LaynaPimentel Thu Sep 16 01:22:31 +0000 2010

#WW the fabulous @ficwriter -- always an inspiration =) Thu Sep 16 01:21:30 +0000 2010

#WW to #Imago author and great writer @LornaSuzuki Thu Sep 16 01:20:07 +0000 2010

The Underwood Effect || A Modern Parable about Old Technology - http://bit.ly/bduurL Thu Sep 16 01:18:46 +0000 2010

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write. — Anon Thu Sep 16 01:15:07 +0000 2010

NBC correspondent Edwin Newman dies at 91 -- http://yhoo.it/d31Nn2 Wed Sep 15 18:00:05 +0000 2010

Goodnight Twitter. May tomorrow be strange and wonderful ..❧❀❧♥¸.•*¨*•♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Wed Sep 15 02:46:13 +0000 2010

RT @UsborneJody ~ Cool! A desk made out of old books! -- http://bit.ly/aSvzuB Wed Sep 15 02:32:08 +0000 2010

☞ Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. ~ Gerald Vaughan ♡✩✺ Wed Sep 15 02:21:37 +0000 2010

RT @Om_Sun: ☜☞✩♡✩✺✩♡✩☜☞✩♡✩✺✩♡✩☜☞✩♡✩✺ Wed Sep 15 02:19:42 +0000 2010

Writing Tip: Everyone has 10,000 bad stories in them. The faster you get rid of them the better. #ShutUpAndWrite Wed Sep 15 02:16:32 +0000 2010

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan Wed Sep 15 02:12:49 +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 Wed Sep 15 02:07:30 +0000 2010

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~ George Lorimer Wed Sep 15 01:47:56 +0000 2010

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~ Scottish Proverb #ShutUpAndWrite Wed Sep 15 01:21:22 +0000 2010

If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. ~ Anon Wed Sep 15 01:15:47 +0000 2010

I guess I'll miss this old Twitter page. It's all I've ever known ... LOL ... #TweetNostalgia Wed Sep 15 00:37:11 +0000 2010

So tonight Twitter changes? #eek Wed Sep 15 00:18:06 +0000 2010

A Modern Parable about Old Technology, A David Hunter Short -- http://bit.ly/bduurL Tue Sep 14 23:10:07 +0000 2010

One of these days is none of these days. ~ Henri Tubach #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 14 23:04:04 +0000 2010

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~ Spanish Proverb #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 14 23:01:18 +0000 2010
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~ Eva Young #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 14 22:59:03 +0000 2010

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. ~ Anon Tue Sep 14 22:54:58 +0000 2010

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'. ~ Martin Luther #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 14 22:54:15 +0000 2010

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. ~ Christopher Parker #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 14 22:51:40 +0000 2010

Tweeterus Ergo Sum (I Tweet, Therefore I am) Tue Sep 14 22:43:24 +0000 2010

@JenniferBWhite - Nothing like a fried chicken head to top off a meal =P Tue Sep 14 22:41:26 +0000 2010

I'm never eating chicken wings again -- http://bit.ly/bwDIwU Tue Sep 14 22:35:23 +0000 2010

@nickolaswriter - I lost all mentions dating back to June, then they all re-appeared again. High strangeness ... Tue Sep 14 22:33:53 +0000 2010

Ugh. Chicken head found in order of wings -- http://bit.ly/bwDIwU Tue Sep 14 22:30:22 +0000 2010

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. ~ Thomas W. Higginson Tue Sep 14 22:27:08 +0000 2010

@nickolaswriter - David Hunter reporting for duty. Tue Sep 14 22:26:39 +0000 2010

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ~ E. B. White Tue Sep 14 22:24:41 +0000 2010

The Underwood Effect || A Modern Parable about Old Technology -- http://bit.ly/bduurL Tue Sep 14 22:22:35 +0000 2010

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. ~ Doug Larson Tue Sep 14 22:15:29 +0000 2010

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ~ Rita Mae Brown Tue Sep 14 22:10:16 +0000 2010

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? ~ George Carlin Tue Sep 14 18:35:47 +0000 2010

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ~ Adlai Stevenson Tue Sep 14 18:28:13 +0000 2010

~ The Underwood Effect || A Modern Parable about Old Technology -- http://bit.ly/bduurL Tue Sep 14 18:05:41 +0000 2010

The Underwood Effect || A Modern Parable about Old Technology -- http://bit.ly/bduurL Tue Sep 14 08:12:27 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - Hullo! Goombye! Zz Tue Sep 14 04:33:47 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - I had one, and it was decoration too. Very hard to find ribbons for them. Didn't do much writing on it. Tue Sep 14 04:32:55 +0000 2010

@Jennifer_MK - Thanks for the RT ... awful nice of you! Tue Sep 14 04:28:50 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Much as I love the damn Underwood, it is a beast to write on LOL Tue Sep 14 04:25:18 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - That was an experiment to see if I could write a short story in one sitting. I guess it worked! Tue Sep 14 04:22:00 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Gracias Amigo, for the RT =) Tue Sep 14 04:20:36 +0000 2010

The Underwood Effect || A Modern Parable about Old Technology - http://bit.ly/bduurL Tue Sep 14 04:12:16 +0000 2010

@racheldillin - Hey, thanks for the RT =) Tue Sep 14 04:11:09 +0000 2010

A New Short Story I wrote: The Underwood Effect - http://bit.ly/bduurL Tue Sep 14 04:07:57 +0000 2010

Short Story: The Underwood Effect || A Modern Parable about Old Technology - http://bit.ly/bduurL Tue Sep 14 03:57:17 +0000 2010

Ya know, Voltaire once said that there's a certain inevitable futility in indecision... ~ Bloom County #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 14 00:41:21 +0000 2010

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. — Stephen King Tue Sep 14 00:27:42 +0000 2010

@MistyWritesNow - Aw, thanks! I'm just about to #ShutUpAndWrite as well. Tue Sep 14 00:26:23 +0000 2010

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. — Stephen King Tue Sep 14 00:25:20 +0000 2010

Ugh. Cliches give me indigestion: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 14 00:21:18 +0000 2010

@MistyWritesNow - Huh? When did I ask anyone to stop observing?? =) Tue Sep 14 00:20:23 +0000 2010

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' ~ Jeff Mallett Tue Sep 14 00:09:22 +0000 2010

Writing Tip: Everyone has 10,000 bad stories in them. The faster you get rid of them the better. #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 14 00:07:28 +0000 2010

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. - John Irving Tue Sep 14 00:03:11 +0000 2010

@marisabirns - How about a veggie dress? I could handle that. #GaGaGoneGaGa Tue Sep 14 00:02:16 +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 Tue Sep 14 00:01:30 +0000 2010

Don't understand the meat dress, it's neither stylish nor practical. #GaGaGoneGaGa Mon Sep 13 23:58:27 +0000 2010

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. - Steven Galloway Mon Sep 13 23:55:38 +0000 2010

Let the readers do some of the work themselves. ~ Dostoyevsky Mon Sep 13 23:36:24 +0000 2010

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ~John Steinbeck Mon Sep 13 23:29:00 +0000 2010

RT @AdviceToWriters ~ Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. CARLOS FUENTES Mon Sep 13 23:26:53 +0000 2010

Don't get it right, just get it written -- James Thurber Mon Sep 13 23:24:02 +0000 2010

If I could write words like leaves on an autumn forest floor, What a bonfire my letters would make ... ~ Spike Milligan Mon Sep 13 23:23:28 +0000 2010
-- Avoid Clichês Like the Plague -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Mon Sep 13 23:00:04 +0000 2010

The world is divided into people who think they are right. — Anonymous Mon Sep 13 18:28:18 +0000 2010

Don’t think and then write it down. Think on paper. — Harry Kemelman Mon Sep 13 18:26:04 +0000 2010

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Mon Sep 13 18:25:24 +0000 2010

@LornaSuzuki - I agree. #StopClichesNow Sun Sep 12 20:35:58 +0000 2010

@LornaSuzuki - I'm in the same boat! LOL Sun Sep 12 20:31:57 +0000 2010

Avoid Clichês Like the Plague -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Sun Sep 12 20:28:02 +0000 2010

Avoid Cliches Like the Plague, by David Hunter: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Sun Sep 12 16:25:15 +0000 2010

I am off to #ShutUpAndWrite #SilenceisGolden #amwriting #jussayin Sun Sep 12 16:09:57 +0000 2010

Avoiding Cliches, by David Hunter: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Sun Sep 12 16:08:48 +0000 2010

@WendySparrow - You DON'T want to see my legs. That must be avoided! #justsayin Sun Sep 12 16:03:08 +0000 2010

Avoid Clichés Like the Plague: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Sun Sep 12 16:01:50 +0000 2010

Looks like I need a new computer. Sigh ... (This Tweet just echoed ...) Sun Sep 12 16:01:03 +0000 2010

Is this thing on? (taps microphone) Sun Sep 12 16:00:04 +0000 2010

@LizBorino - Well, no use in getting angry. I have learned that life is too short to be all stressed out =) Sun Sep 12 15:41:44 +0000 2010

Is anyone else having problems with the new Blogger Post - Editor? It's being stupid =) Sun Sep 12 15:39:10 +0000 2010

Let's have some new cliches. ~ Samuel Goldwyn Sun Sep 12 14:15:51 +0000 2010

I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing. ~ Matthew Vaughn Sun Sep 12 14:04:55 +0000 2010

If you want to use a cliche, take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon, or on society. ~ Lewis Thomas Sun Sep 12 14:03:32 +0000 2010

Is "tired old cliche" one? ~ Rod Schmidt Sun Sep 12 13:58:11 +0000 2010

The cliche is dead poetry. ~ Gerald Brenan Sun Sep 12 13:55:38 +0000 2010



It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. ~ Stephen Fry Sun Sep 12 13:55:04 +0000 2010

It's time for bed. Take care of yourselves out there, be well, survive. Zz Sun Sep 12 04:24:24 +0000 2010

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~ Somerset Maugham Sun Sep 12 04:22:57 +0000 2010

@MsLadyKK - I thought it was pretty good. Wish I had written it #TheBookofEli Sun Sep 12 04:19:55 +0000 2010

May I never grow too old to treasure 'once upon a time'. ~ Anon Sun Sep 12 04:18:55 +0000 2010

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero Sun Sep 12 04:14:18 +0000 2010

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. ~ Henry James Sun Sep 12 04:12:22 +0000 2010

Yes, I've had a few drinks tonight. Watched 'the Book of Eli' too. Sun Sep 12 04:11:58 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I know I do better with ... friends! Sun Sep 12 04:11:13 +0000 2010

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. – Edward Abbey Sun Sep 12 04:10:21 +0000 2010

@Ndege - You mean cut off the poor bunny's ___? Sun Sep 12 04:08:36 +0000 2010

@Ndege - Ugh! Rabbits are such a handful though! I can't imagine having TWO bunnies going at it all the time LOL Sun Sep 12 04:06:07 +0000 2010

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ༺༻ Mark Twain #TwainStation Sun Sep 12 04:05:05 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I think one bunny will do =) Sun Sep 12 04:04:16 +0000 2010

9/11: The Haunting, by David Hunter -- http://bit.ly/a0TzYc Sun Sep 12 04:03:17 +0000 2010

@Ndege - But then they procreate! Must get a bunny vasectomy! Sun Sep 12 04:00:24 +0000 2010

...Let them be your mattress and you shall sleep restful nights.❧❀❧♥¸.•*¨*•♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Sun Sep 12 03:59:12 +0000 2010

Let books be your dining table, and you shall be full of delights ❧❀❧♥¸.•*¨*•♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Sun Sep 12 03:59:01 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - We are shopping for a new bunny. Maybe in December we'll get one =) Sun Sep 12 03:58:36 +0000 2010

@Ndege - A lot of the terminology is Latin based, so I can understand that aspect of it. Sun Sep 12 03:57:56 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - Good evening buttercup. How are you? Sun Sep 12 03:56:35 +0000 2010

Books are embalmed minds. ༺༻ Bovee Sun Sep 12 03:56:02 +0000 2010

@Ndege - Not too many Latin speaking people in this neighborhood. And if there were, I wouldn't know! Sun Sep 12 03:55:19 +0000 2010

Thank you for the RTs: @Ndege, @JosephMulak, @Jennifer_MK, @flipster48 Sun Sep 12 03:50:19 +0000 2010

RT @ficwriter ¸,✶Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ.. There Are No Rules - Hurricane Season http://t.co/vQau19c via @AddThis Sat Sep 11 01:10:41 +0000 2010

"The paper burns, but the words fly free." ~ Akiba ben Joseph Sat Sep 11 01:08:55 +0000 2010

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. ~ Stephen King Sat Sep 11 01:01:22 +0000 2010

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Z.N. Hurston Sat Sep 11 00:58:54 +0000 2010

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. ஜ Kahlil Gibran ¸.ஜ☯ø❀☮”♥ø„¸¸„ø,,¸¸,,., Sat Sep 11 00:53:15 +0000 2010

A writer has a facility with words. A good writer can also think. — Cynthia Ozick Sat Sep 11 00:47:56 +0000 2010

I miss @ShadyMutton ... #FF Sat Sep 11 00:43:30 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - Yes? How did you know? Does it show on my face? Sat Sep 11 00:41:34 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - Still operating on half a brain. Just woke up ... Sat Sep 11 00:37:41 +0000 2010

Three great writers, and beautiful people to boot: @JoLynneValerie, @ficwriter, and @LaynaPimentel Sat Sep 11 00:37:06 +0000 2010

One of the most interesting people I know, #FF @delwilliams Sat Sep 11 00:34:34 +0000 2010

#FF -- @VariantVal, @Ndege, and @JosephLane - My friends. Sat Sep 11 00:33:24 +0000 2010

#FF to @Kno_Thyself, who ... knows herself =) Sat Sep 11 00:32:31 +0000 2010

A great writer, #FF to @LornaSuzuki Sat Sep 11 00:31:50 +0000 2010

#followfriday thanks to @GLaCorde, @Corbie77, @deleeze, @ventus_17 and @Kno_Thyself =) Sat Sep 11 00:29:49 +0000 2010

~ If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. ~ Anon Fri Sep 10 07:48:19 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I'm off to work; you have a great day. Take care of yourself =) Fri Sep 10 07:40:53 +0000 2010

Time's up. My manuscript awaits ... #ShutUpAndWrite #amwriting Fri Sep 10 01:16:58 +0000 2010

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope - Dr. Seuss Fri Sep 10 01:14:25 +0000 2010

Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. - Ezra Pound Fri Sep 10 01:13:16 +0000 2010

¸,✶*¨*•,¸Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ☯ Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. - Julien Green ¸,✶*¨*•,¸Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ☯ Fri Sep 10 01:09:27 +0000 2010

RT @The_AntiJoe -- A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt #quote Fri Sep 10 01:08:26 +0000 2010
RT @ficwriter ¸,✶Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ.. There Are No Rules - Hurricane Season http://t.co/vQau19c via @AddThis Sat Sep 11 01:10:41 +0000 2010

"The paper burns, but the words fly free." ~ Akiba ben Joseph Sat Sep 11 01:08:55 +0000 2010

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. ~ Stephen King Sat Sep 11 01:01:22 +0000 2010

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Z.N. Hurston Sat Sep 11 00:58:54 +0000 2010

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. ஜ Kahlil Gibran ¸.ஜ☯ø❀☮”♥ø„¸¸„ø,,¸¸,,., Sat Sep 11 00:53:15 +0000 2010

A writer has a facility with words. A good writer can also think. — Cynthia Ozick Sat Sep 11 00:47:56 +0000 2010

I miss @ShadyMutton ... #FF Sat Sep 11 00:43:30 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - Yes? How did you know? Does it show on my face? Sat Sep 11 00:41:34 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - Still operating on half a brain. Just woke up ... Sat Sep 11 00:37:41 +0000 2010

Three great writers, and beautiful people to boot: @JoLynneValerie, @ficwriter, and @LaynaPimentel Sat Sep 11 00:37:06 +0000 2010

One of the most interesting people I know, #FF @delwilliams Sat Sep 11 00:34:34 +0000 2010

#FF -- @VariantVal, @Ndege, and @JosephLane - My friends. Sat Sep 11 00:33:24 +0000 2010

#FF to @Kno_Thyself, who ... knows herself =) Sat Sep 11 00:32:31 +0000 2010

A great writer, #FF to @LornaSuzuki Sat Sep 11 00:31:50 +0000 2010

#followfriday thanks to @GLaCorde, @Corbie77, @deleeze, @ventus_17 and @Kno_Thyself =) Sat Sep 11 00:29:49 +0000 2010

~ If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. ~ Anon Fri Sep 10 07:48:19 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I'm off to work; you have a great day. Take care of yourself =) Fri Sep 10 07:40:53 +0000 2010

Time's up. My manuscript awaits ... #ShutUpAndWrite #amwriting Fri Sep 10 01:16:58 +0000 2010

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope - Dr. Seuss Fri Sep 10 01:14:25 +0000 2010

Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. - Ezra Pound Fri Sep 10 01:13:16 +0000 2010

¸,✶*¨*•,¸Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ☯ Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. - Julien Green ¸,✶*¨*•,¸Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ☯ Fri Sep 10 01:09:27 +0000 2010

RT @The_AntiJoe -- A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt #quote Fri Sep 10 01:08:26 +0000 2010
…your reader is at least as bright as you are. ~ William Maxwell Fri Sep 10 01:07:45 +0000 2010

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'. -- Lyndon B. Johnson #ShutUpAndWrite Fri Sep 10 00:59:12 +0000 2010

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~ Holden Caulfield Fri Sep 10 00:57:21 +0000 2010

Chilly outside. No complaints: I have my mug of Tea, my words, and NFL Football in the background. Fri Sep 10 00:55:42 +0000 2010

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis Fri Sep 10 00:53:48 +0000 2010

The written word endures. Litera scripta manet. ~ Anon Fri Sep 10 00:52:21 +0000 2010

...First star to the left, then straight on till morning..☾∴*∵∶*∴*¤°• . NiTe Thu Sep 09 02:11:32 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @LornaSuzuki - Night! Zz Thu Sep 09 02:09:58 +0000 2010

Okay, I'm outta here. Zz Thu Sep 09 02:07:43 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - See, that'll be the fun of it LOL Thu Sep 09 02:01:53 +0000 2010

@22DanielleM - I have a video clip of her below that too. She was getting up there; 8 is old for a bunny ... Thu Sep 09 01:55:09 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - By the way, I'm preparing to do some hockey writing this winter. I wanted you and I to do some Leafs/Habs sparing =) Thu Sep 09 01:53:23 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - I'm still missing the F11 key. I never use it anyway LOL Thu Sep 09 01:52:27 +0000 2010

@22DanielleM - Well, we lost our pet Bunny Jessie a few days ago, but we're coping =) Here's a pic of her: http://xtheoutpostx.blogspot.com/ Thu Sep 09 01:51:55 +0000 2010

❝ May your writings be a spark of unfettered ideas and cataclysms❞ ~ ¸,,✌•¨°º✽„¸ Thu Sep 09 01:50:47 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - You are too kind milady! #HaveAGreatNight Thu Sep 09 01:50:12 +0000 2010

❝The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.❞ ~ Bernard Malamud Thu Sep 09 01:45:37 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - You just described ME! #Tired #WornOut #ButGood Thu Sep 09 01:44:53 +0000 2010

@sabluvs2write - I'll send a pic. The colors are in describable =P Thu Sep 09 01:44:21 +0000 2010

#WW to my main #ShutUpAndWrite pals @10MinuteWriter and @LaynaPimentel Thu Sep 09 01:43:45 +0000 2010

#WW to these fine writers: @22DanielleM, @LornaSuzuki #IMAGO @PeevishPenman Thu Sep 09 01:42:46 +0000 2010

'Foreshadowing' -- your clue to quality literature. - Bloom County Thu Sep 09 01:39:22 +0000 2010

@sabluvs2write - Not the bedrooms or bathroom: Kitchen, Living room and hallway. Thu Sep 09 01:39:06 +0000 2010

@sabluvs2write - Ugh. Coping. It's weird not having the Bunny running underfoot. We painted the apartment today =) Thu Sep 09 01:36:50 +0000 2010

Oh, whimsical notion, we hardly knew ye. - Bloom County Thu Sep 09 01:34:05 +0000 2010
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Writing is my time machine; it takes me to the precise time and place I belong. ~ Jeb Dickerson Thu Sep 09 01:30:19 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - How have you been bro? Hope all is well. Thu Sep 09 01:28:11 +0000 2010

Literature is my Utopia. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse - Helen Keller Thu Sep 09 01:27:35 +0000 2010

✈ As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors. ✈ Rhys Alexander ✉ ✌ ✍ ✤ ✲ Thu Sep 09 01:26:03 +0000 2010

#WW to @VariantVal, @TessDickenson, @ggSpirit, @JosephLane -- sometimes they help me through the rough patches ... =) Thu Sep 09 01:23:51 +0000 2010

#WW Thx to @DanMcNeil888, @sarahndipitous, @GLaCorde, @ventus_17, @TheJanF, @TerryCombsAZ, and @DocumentDriven Thu Sep 09 01:22:50 +0000 2010

My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? - Dr. Seuss Thu Sep 09 01:21:01 +0000 2010

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. ~ Beth Gilbert Thu Sep 09 01:19:54 +0000 2010

-- Brain Freeze? Yeah, I get those: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 07:50:43 +0000 2010

~ @MerleChloe @Ndege =) Wed Sep 08 07:50:06 +0000 2010

Off to work I go -- have a great day everyone ... =) Wed Sep 08 07:47:34 +0000 2010

Page Fright? -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 07:42:40 +0000 2010

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work. ~ William Gibson Wed Sep 08 02:42:39 +0000 2010

Ack: Page Fright? http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 02:40:00 +0000 2010

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand -- Kurt Vonnegut Wed Sep 08 02:16:56 +0000 2010

At the Den: The Lamentable Brain Freeze -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 02:16:17 +0000 2010

To hell with facts! We need stories! - Ken Kesey Wed Sep 08 02:10:42 +0000 2010

@22DanielleM - Thanks for the RT! Very nice of you ... Wed Sep 08 02:10:24 +0000 2010

Brain Freeze? Yeah, I get those: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 02:08:46 +0000 2010

Do you ever get Page Fright? -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 02:04:57 +0000 2010

New Post at the Den -- The Lamentable Brain Freeze: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 02:02:06 +0000 2010

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. - F. Scott Fitzgerald Wed Sep 08 02:01:15 +0000 2010

Page Fright? The Lamentable Brain Freeze: http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 02:00:03 +0000 2010


Thursday, October 28, 2010

  Archived Pile of Twitter Feed No. 9 || @TheWritersDen





He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license. - Milton Berle Wed Sep 08 01:47:26 +0000 2010






@Ltstrythisagain - I'm like that: I love introductions, prologues, forwards, all that stuff. Stephen King has some great ones. Wed Sep 08 01:42:44 +0000 2010

@Ltstrythisagain - I call that 'Drastic renewal of purpose' =) #PickUpAFavoriteBook Wed Sep 08 01:22:24 +0000 2010

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. - Anatole France Wed Sep 08 01:11:29 +0000 2010

Ugh, don't ever burn a book in front of me. I'm not responsible for my actions if you do. =) #BanTheBookBurning Wed Sep 08 01:09:36 +0000 2010

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. - Emily Dickinson Wed Sep 08 01:02:13 +0000 2010

@TracyClark_TLC - Aw, thanks Trace. I pondered a post about it but ... I opted for a photo tribute: http://xtheoutpostx.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 08 00:59:34 +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 Wed Sep 08 00:57:14 +0000 2010

Ack: Been yo-yoing between my novel and my blog post tonight, and thinking about my late Bunny Jessie ... sigh ... Wed Sep 08 00:56:55 +0000 2010

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living - Cyril Connolly Tue Sep 07 22:33:33 +0000 2010

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan Tue Sep 07 21:57:09 +0000 2010

Literature is the question minus the answer. ~ Roland Barthes Tue Sep 07 18:05:05 +0000 2010

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ~ Ezra Pound Tue Sep 07 17:46:36 +0000 2010

I think Twitter was MADE for writers =) I love you guys ... everyday I get inspired by all your writerly activity. #KeepOnWriting Tue Sep 07 17:46:16 +0000 2010

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing -- but in the midst of living. ~ Anais Nin Tue Sep 07 17:42:51 +0000 2010

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. ~ Samuel Beckett Tue Sep 07 17:38:35 +0000 2010

This is a public service announcement from @TheWritersDen: #ShutUpAndWrite -- because you can! Tue Sep 07 17:37:36 +0000 2010

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ~ Isaac Asimov Tue Sep 07 17:36:50 +0000 2010

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ~ Ralph Ellison Tue Sep 07 17:34:06 +0000 2010

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! ~ Robert Browning Tue Sep 07 17:31:47 +0000 2010

@icky_names - It's amazing how we get attached to a little critter, one who listens without prejudice, and is loyal to a fault, isn't it? Tue Sep 07 17:28:25 +0000 2010

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tue Sep 07 17:25:48 +0000 2010

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? — Alexander Pope Tue Sep 07 17:24:55 +0000 2010
@serenatk - I do love that quote. Thanks for the RT =) .... Tue Sep 07 17:24:51 +0000 2010

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. ~ Gustave Flaubert Tue Sep 07 17:22:33 +0000 2010

@SchuggaJoy - Thanks Shugga =) Tue Sep 07 17:10:33 +0000 2010

@DyNama - Jessie often was the most pampered Bunny in the universe =) Tue Sep 07 17:08:50 +0000 2010

~ @Ltstrythisagain @SchuggaJoy @beingcrys @lizb1987 - Twitter redeems itself daily due to your wonderful humanity =) Tue Sep 07 17:01:24 +0000 2010

@SamanthaHunter, @Annette_Dashofy, @marisabirns - All of you are so sweet =) Thank you .. Tue Sep 07 16:58:34 +0000 2010

My bunny Jessie passed away yesterday, she was 8 ...here's the last pic I took of her || http://bit.ly/aR8cbO Tue Sep 07 16:55:56 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - Bring it on ... smuggle them hugs into Canada! Tue Sep 07 16:28:20 +0000 2010

May you live every day of your life. ~ Jonathan Swift Tue Sep 07 16:27:58 +0000 2010

@TracyClark_TLC =) Tue Sep 07 16:23:42 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - I think it's a Spice Girls thing =) Tue Sep 07 16:23:31 +0000 2010

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ~ Sholom Aleichem Tue Sep 07 16:16:00 +0000 2010

It is not length of life, but depth of life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Tue Sep 07 16:15:29 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - Hola! How are you this morning? ((Hugs)) Tue Sep 07 16:15:11 +0000 2010

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ~ Robert Frost Tue Sep 07 16:13:42 +0000 2010

For any new followers -- Shut Up And Write: A Masters Thesis - http://bit.ly/dpCfuC #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 07 04:43:07 +0000 2010

Did 1000 words, now it's time for a walk in the brisk September air, with my Camera, Natch. #KeepOnWriting Sun Sep 05 19:20:06 +0000 2010

Retro Den, for any new followers -- Shut Up And Write: A Masters Thesis - http://bit.ly/dpCfuC Sun Sep 05 18:08:06 +0000 2010

Okay, gotta go. There's words to put down, and I must concentrate. #KeepWriting #ShutUpAndWrite #amwriting Sun Sep 05 18:04:26 +0000 2010

I'm proud of all of you! #ShutUpAndWrite Sun Sep 05 17:57:17 +0000 2010

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. — Zadie Smith Sun Sep 05 17:49:39 +0000 2010

Who's writing this afternoon? Anyone? =) Sun Sep 05 17:49:04 +0000 2010

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly. ~ C. J. Cherryh Sun Sep 05 17:43:43 +0000 2010

It's all in the mind, you know. ~ Spike Milligan #ShutUpAndWrite Sun Sep 05 17:40:34 +0000 2010

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. ~ Ernest Hemingway Sun Sep 05 17:22:12 +0000 2010

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. ~ Henry James Sun Sep 05 17:21:48 +0000 2010

@Ltstrythisagain - I'm sipping some tea, enjoying the cool air drifting into my open window =) Sun Sep 05 17:20:24 +0000 2010

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. ~ Gustave Flaubert Sun Sep 05 17:17:45 +0000 2010

@Ltstrythisagain - Hullo Katie! How are you? Sun Sep 05 17:17:23 +0000 2010

Night, sleep, and the stars. - Walt Whitman *★☾∴*★∵∶★∴★* ¤°• Sun Sep 05 06:45:23 +0000 2010

Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best ... Sun Sep 05 06:44:24 +0000 2010

Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done ... Sun Sep 05 06:44:04 +0000 2010

THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless.... Sun Sep 05 06:43:43 +0000 2010

Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway Sun Sep 05 06:41:48 +0000 2010

@susiemccray - David Hunter, reporting for duty #TeamInsomnia Sun Sep 05 06:41:07 +0000 2010

...I send my soul through time and space to greet you. You will understand. - James Elroy Flecker Sun Sep 05 06:38:26 +0000 2010

Since I can never see your face, and never shake you by the hand ... Sun Sep 05 06:37:51 +0000 2010

...And left no trace but the cellar walls, and a cellar in which the daylight falls ... Sun Sep 05 06:36:09 +0000 2010

I dwell in a lonely house I know, that vanished many a summer ago ... Sun Sep 05 06:35:38 +0000 2010

...And there the moon-bird rests from his flight, to cool in the peppermint wind... ~ Shel Silverstein Sun Sep 05 06:33:28 +0000 2010

Yawn! Another productive night. Got some words down. Feeling good. Zz Sun Sep 05 06:03:34 +0000 2010

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go. ~ Brad Paisley Sun Sep 05 03:26:14 +0000 2010

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ~ Steven Wright Sun Sep 05 03:17:14 +0000 2010

Pen + Paper = Ink on Soul #ShutUpAndWrite Sun Sep 05 03:15:58 +0000 2010

@TessDickenson - Maybe I was thinking Verbiage and came up with Wordage! But there is no red line under 'Wordage' so it's safe. Sun Sep 05 03:15:03 +0000 2010

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~ Lord Byron Sun Sep 05 02:32:15 +0000 2010

Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ༺༻ Graycie Harmon Sun Sep 05 02:27:36 +0000 2010

@ficwriter - Yup, it 'ain't gonna write itself, I reckon! Sun Sep 05 02:26:41 +0000 2010

Be obscure clearly. ~ E.B. White Sun Sep 05 02:23:02 +0000 2010

@Ltstrythisagain - Guilty as charged. It's one of the most fun aspects of Twitter. #Lurking Sun Sep 05 02:20:30 +0000 2010

Good. Many here are heeding the #ShutUpAndWrite credo, Excellent! Sun Sep 05 02:17:56 +0000 2010

So, many of my fellow writers lurk behind the scenes, writing, and watching their Twitter feed. How wonderfully creepy. Sun Sep 05 02:15:08 +0000 2010

@10MinuteWriter - Awesome! I WISH I could eliminate words, I usually don't have enough of them ... =P Sun Sep 05 02:13:39 +0000 2010

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. -- Norman Mailer Sun Sep 05 02:12:49 +0000 2010

Hands up, baby hands up! #WhosWritingTonight Sun Sep 05 02:12:23 +0000 2010

@winterphoenix - No second guessing! Just write, and if you don't like it, write it again. It don't cost nothin' ! Sun Sep 05 02:09:43 +0000 2010

@ChrisyKrueger - Yep, all the interesting folks come out of the ether at night. Writers are always so nocturnal .. like bats or something. Sun Sep 05 02:08:45 +0000 2010

@Ltstrythisagain - Plug it in, and say 'check, check, bounce, bounce' like we used to do before shows LOL (I played lead guitar) Sun Sep 05 02:07:39 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - I'm going to check it out when I've finished my post for the Den, which I am currently working on, believe it or not =) Sun Sep 05 02:06:13 +0000 2010

@KarenOleet - I find I talk in 140 character snippets now. My friends think I'm nuts. =) Sun Sep 05 02:05:05 +0000 2010

Who's writing tonight? Show of hands! #ShutUpAndWrite Sun Sep 05 02:02:42 +0000 2010

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential. ༺༻ Jessamyn West Sun Sep 05 01:59:03 +0000 2010

@TessDickenson - Busy is good in context of getting wordage down. Is 'wordage' even a word? Discuss! Sun Sep 05 01:56:54 +0000 2010

Half my life is an act of revision. - John Irving Sun Sep 05 01:56:01 +0000 2010

@KarenOleet - This 140 Ch limit baffled me at first, but I've learn some brilliant editing techniques because of it! Sun Sep 05 01:52:44 +0000 2010

@TessDickenson - It is interesting that we need to trick ourselves into doing the very thing we love to do =P Sun Sep 05 01:47:34 +0000 2010

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ༺༻ James Michener Sun Sep 05 01:45:45 +0000 2010

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. ༺༻ Isaac Asimov Sun Sep 05 01:41:10 +0000 2010

@TessDickenson - Hope everything is well with you ... =) Sun Sep 05 01:39:17 +0000 2010

@TessDickenson - I'm great! I implemented the #ShutUpAndWrite credo and have managed to shame myself into writing more! Sun Sep 05 01:38:50 +0000 2010

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. ༺༻ Julien Green Sun Sep 05 01:35:26 +0000 2010

@TracyClark_TLC ))♥(())♥(())♥(( Sun Sep 05 01:34:35 +0000 2010

#FF alert: For any new followers, the wonderful @TessDickenson is a great follow =) Sun Sep 05 01:33:22 +0000 2010
@ggSpirit - It is SO easy to get shaken off course ... I tend to agree. Well, we're always here, if you need us =) Sun Sep 05 01:32:00 +0000 2010

You fail only if you stop writing. ༺༻ Ray Bradbury Sun Sep 05 01:30:32 +0000 2010

@ggSpirit - "Grateful" is always a good path to take ... Sun Sep 05 01:27:46 +0000 2010

Don't wait for a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters - #ShutUpAndWrite Sun Sep 05 01:26:44 +0000 2010

@mpf2011 - That quote is my personal motto =) Sun Sep 05 01:25:48 +0000 2010

Stick to the point. ~ W. Somerset Maugham Sun Sep 05 01:24:50 +0000 2010

@ggSpirit - How are you? Hope everything is well? Sun Sep 05 01:24:20 +0000 2010

Whether or not you write well, write bravely. ~ Bill Stout Sun Sep 05 01:23:42 +0000 2010

The writer's duty is to keep on writing… ~ William Styron Sun Sep 05 01:21:55 +0000 2010

@Jennifer_MK - How Invitingly provocative! I'd have to keep alert in a scrabble game with you.. .. Sun Sep 05 01:20:16 +0000 2010

I opened the closet of my mouth and was befallen by a stack of words! Down they tumbled, crushing me with meaning ... Sun Sep 05 01:15:36 +0000 2010

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. - Robert Cormier Sun Sep 05 01:13:46 +0000 2010

@ggSpirit - I have about 5 chapters. I'm just writing as fast as I can, getting stuff down. If I nit-pick I'll never get it done. Sun Sep 05 01:12:29 +0000 2010

wordi·ness n. Synonyms: wordy, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, verbose (I just described myself) Sun Sep 05 01:10:13 +0000 2010

@Jennifer_MK - Oh, you drop THOSE bombs on unsuspecting guys? Nothing like some serious wordage to weed out the monosyllabics! Sun Sep 05 01:09:31 +0000 2010

@ggSpirit - Well, I HAVE been writing, but the blog posts have been slow. Been working on the book, mostly. Sun Sep 05 01:08:19 +0000 2010

༺༻ When you write yourself into a corner, go up the wall ༺༻ Sun Sep 05 01:07:17 +0000 2010

@ggSpirit - I was getting pretty busy for a while; the summer was hot and lovely -- not a great time to be writing for me: distractions Sun Sep 05 01:05:22 +0000 2010

Belated #FF and #WW to @ggSpirit, for all you new followers. One of my originals ... Sun Sep 05 01:02:54 +0000 2010

@ggSpirit - Can it be?? It is! Gigi ... #BeenSoLong Sun Sep 05 01:01:55 +0000 2010

Them little fuzzy things floatin' around my transom and causing me to become Prolix and Verbose: Words. Sun Sep 05 01:00:58 +0000 2010

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. — Jack Kerouac (Yes) Sun Sep 05 00:55:56 +0000 2010

@Jennifer_MK - You inspired me to write a post about words. You've unleashed something! LOL (You'll get a mention for your great post) Sun Sep 05 00:55:27 +0000 2010

@ElleAndraWarner - I have a character named Prolix in a sci-fi comedy I wrote years ago. Sun Sep 05 00:54:28 +0000 2010

@VariantVal - The vivacious and vivid Val! Sup girl? Sun Sep 05 00:52:13 +0000 2010

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Sun Sep 05 00:51:37 +0000 2010

Oh I love this next quote so much, I need to lead in with this useless Tweet LOL ... Sun Sep 05 00:51:28 +0000 2010

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — Jack Kerouac Sun Sep 05 00:49:52 +0000 2010

@ElleAndraWarner - I know! I love that post by @Jennifer_MK -- I'm inspired to write a post about words tonight ... =) Sun Sep 05 00:49:31 +0000 2010

Jack Kerouac wrote 'On the Road' on a one hundred and twenty-foot scroll of tracing paper, single-spaced without margins or paragraph breaks Sun Sep 05 00:48:00 +0000 2010

Pen + Paper = Ink on Soul #ShutUpAndWrite Sun Sep 05 00:45:49 +0000 2010

The importance of a large #vocabulary - by @Jennifer_MK -- http://wp.me/pQazW-4z #amwriting #amediting Sun Sep 05 00:42:10 +0000 2010

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Theodor Geisel Sun Sep 05 00:40:06 +0000 2010

Saturday night, it's cool out, I'm huddled inside my little writing space, and I'm sipping tea. It was Summer just three days ago! Sun Sep 05 00:37:04 +0000 2010

I must bid you all adieu. Zz Sat Sep 04 03:34:09 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Night Joe. Thanks for playing, and take care. Sat Sep 04 03:29:09 +0000 2010

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein Sat Sep 04 03:27:42 +0000 2010

@RichardMansel - I'm doing research as well; I'm writing a detective story set during that time period =) Sat Sep 04 03:27:00 +0000 2010

Reading the Complete Sherlock Holmes, fabulous stuff. #Classics Sat Sep 04 03:24:45 +0000 2010

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Sat Sep 04 03:23:33 +0000 2010

@ficwriter - Isn't it? It's like a Twilight Zone episode or something #creepy Sat Sep 04 03:21:43 +0000 2010

@sabluvs2write - 33 Sat Sep 04 03:19:51 +0000 2010

@ficwriter - I try to get around to reading all the classic authors like Chandler, but there are so many. I'm working on Conan Doyle now Sat Sep 04 03:19:24 +0000 2010

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Sat Sep 04 03:16:13 +0000 2010

@sabluvs2write - 25? Or 33? Sat Sep 04 03:14:47 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @Ficwriter - It's all automated tweets that respond to our keywords. Sat Sep 04 03:14:18 +0000 2010

You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. ~ The Big Lebowski Sat Sep 04 03:10:47 +0000 2010

@sabluvs2write - I'm calling you tomorrow. Just have to get a calling card =) Sat Sep 04 03:09:23 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @ficwriter - My friend borrowed my copy of Lebowski and won't give it back, he's hooked on it LOL Sat Sep 04 03:08:30 +0000 2010
@JosephLane @ficwriter - This aggression will not stand ... man. Sat Sep 04 03:06:12 +0000 2010

Nicole, you are like a brother to me ... a sexy brother in a dress. ༺༻ Inspector Clouseau, Sat Sep 04 03:02:39 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - Forget Gone With the Wind. The Big Lebowski is the epitome of 20th century film making! Sat Sep 04 03:00:40 +0000 2010

@sabluvs2write - Hey sis! Sup? Huppy birthday! Sat Sep 04 02:59:17 +0000 2010

I have nothing to declare except my genius. - Oscar Wilde Sat Sep 04 02:58:42 +0000 2010

@Ndege - That movie I loved for use of slow motion, musical and emotional cues, and of course, witty writing. #Tenenbaums Sat Sep 04 02:57:56 +0000 2010

Have I told you all how wonderful @ficwriter is? #FF recommended Sat Sep 04 02:56:14 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Let's not get into the Big Lebowski! #CinemaClassic LOL Sat Sep 04 02:55:19 +0000 2010

@Ndege - You don't like The Tenenbaums? Sat Sep 04 02:54:22 +0000 2010

@PeevishPenman - Num! Thanks. #DavidFamineRelief Sat Sep 04 02:53:45 +0000 2010

@Ndege - He has more money than the average 3rd world country, but I digress! Sat Sep 04 02:53:14 +0000 2010

There are no facts, only interpretations. - Nietzsche Sat Sep 04 02:52:11 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Love Wes Anderson. Haven't watched Bottle Rocket all the way through yet though ... Sat Sep 04 02:51:36 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @Ndege - Leo has something bigger than me alright, his massive cranium! #PumpkinHead Sat Sep 04 02:50:01 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I think you hit it: everything is shown in ET. I guess I like the challenge of figuring things out a little ... Sat Sep 04 02:49:20 +0000 2010

I could use a PB & J Sammich right now. #OhHungry Sat Sep 04 02:48:05 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - I tend to like strange artsy movies like The Royal Tenenbaums. Sat Sep 04 02:47:11 +0000 2010

@Ndege - Hey, remember, I am a film buff. I recognize ET as a classic =) Sat Sep 04 02:44:51 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - I liked Titanic because of the historical factor, of the Ship being recreated .. Sat Sep 04 02:43:53 +0000 2010

@Ndege - And YOU said it, not me. I don't judge people who like certain movies - certainly not their intelligence =) Sat Sep 04 02:42:18 +0000 2010

@Ndege - No, that's just ME. I am so familiar with the story that I feel like I've already seen it. Weird ... Sat Sep 04 02:41:24 +0000 2010

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford Sat Sep 04 02:40:12 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @Ndege - Tremors is a guilty pleasure for me. So bad it's good! #FilmTalk Sat Sep 04 02:39:15 +0000 2010
@Ndege - It's not what you think! I watch a lot of emo movies, that one ET is just too ... slow? Predictable? Over-hyped? Don't know. Sat Sep 04 02:38:22 +0000 2010

Hey you! Did you just un-follow me? Good. I thought I was imagining it. =) Sat Sep 04 02:34:46 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I can watch Goodfellas and Tremors over and over again, but no ET ... can't get through that film, don't know why. Sat Sep 04 02:33:50 +0000 2010

I would have made a good pope - Richard M. Nixon Sat Sep 04 02:32:42 +0000 2010

@Breathless74 - (((HuG))) Sat Sep 04 02:30:38 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - So ...? Nothing! I have never seen ET all the way through ... strange huh? Sat Sep 04 02:30:00 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I walk and ponder all the time. It's my thing =) #BeachComber Sat Sep 04 02:28:57 +0000 2010

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you? ~ Madeleine, Quills Sat Sep 04 02:28:06 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - It's a very sad movie, don't know if you're into Emo movies like that ... Sat Sep 04 02:27:22 +0000 2010

Is it wrong call Leo DiCaprio a Pumpkin Head? #Jussayin Sat Sep 04 02:25:11 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - I liked him in Catch Me If You Can and Gilbert Grape. #PumpkinHeadLeo Sat Sep 04 02:24:30 +0000 2010

Hey @Ndege ... Where's the Val factor tonight? We miss her! @VariantVal @JosephLane Sat Sep 04 02:23:24 +0000 2010

Some people without any brains do an awful lot of talking now don't they? ~ The Wizard of Oz Sat Sep 04 02:19:44 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - Val's in Florida. I heard Earl just skirted the coast =) #Whew Sat Sep 04 02:18:48 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @Ndege - Hm? Not a Leo De Caprio fan I take it? The man has a large cranium, doesn't he? Fills up the screen! Sat Sep 04 02:18:06 +0000 2010

I am a drinker with writing problems. ~ Brendan Behan Sat Sep 04 02:16:58 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - I'm an illusion, actually. I am a manifest of @VariantVal 's wicked imagination. Sat Sep 04 02:15:58 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @Ndege - I've heard that if one missuses time-travel one can become one's own grandfather, or something. Sat Sep 04 02:14:17 +0000 2010

All we are is dust in the wind, dude. ~ Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Sat Sep 04 02:13:00 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @Ndege - I'd like to doppelganger Sarah Palin =) Sat Sep 04 02:12:04 +0000 2010

@Ndege - But there's only one physical you! Unless ... you have a doppelganger? Sat Sep 04 02:11:16 +0000 2010

Is there more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking? ~ Zoolander Sat Sep 04 02:08:57 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @Ndege - We are all singles, aren't we? Unless you're a twin? Sat Sep 04 02:08:29 +0000 2010

Forget Sarah Palin. I'd like to date Grace Jones. Hey Grace! I'm single =P Sat Sep 04 02:05:52 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - You betcha! Sat Sep 04 02:03:31 +0000 2010

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ~ Willy Wonka Sat Sep 04 02:02:27 +0000 2010

@JosephLane @Ndege - Never thought I'd hear "Shagging" and "Sarah Palin" in the same sentence .... Sat Sep 04 02:01:42 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - A centrist? Hm. That sounds like a good platform for a new political party! No left, no right, no direction! Sat Sep 04 02:00:45 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - Are we talking about the Sarah Palin who can see Russia from her backyard? Sexy? Really? Sat Sep 04 01:58:48 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - I'm kind of a Liberal/Conservative/Anarchist mish-mash of wavering ideals! Sat Sep 04 01:57:52 +0000 2010

You want to but you can't, and when you do you wish you didn't. It's a trap. - The Breakfast Club Sat Sep 04 01:55:47 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - THAT was my point! You can't possibly keep up, it's just too random! I feel the same sometimes with @Ndege and THE GIRL Sat Sep 04 01:55:08 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - I'm more of a Resistentialist =P I fear change. Sat Sep 04 01:54:00 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - I'd never question your intellect. I'd never question that rapier wit of yours =) Sat Sep 04 01:51:56 +0000 2010

The trouble with real life is that there is no danger music. ~ The Cable Guy Sat Sep 04 01:50:52 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - @Ndege started it! He called me an existentialist! Sat Sep 04 01:50:08 +0000 2010

@Ndege - This sounds like the beginning of a beautiful existential discussion, the likes of which I am ill-equipped to handle #why Sat Sep 04 01:48:33 +0000 2010

They say time is the fire in which we burn ~ Star Trek: Generations Sat Sep 04 01:46:57 +0000 2010

@Ndege - Poor @JosephLane is always the butt of jokes, especially random insane ones that he has no hope of figuring out. Sat Sep 04 01:46:04 +0000 2010

@Ndege - I hope history remembers me for more than just being an interesting Tweeter. If even THAT ... LOL Sat Sep 04 01:45:09 +0000 2010

@simoneandthesea - That pic was taken near some old abandoned factories here in Toronto, where I live =) Sat Sep 04 01:44:00 +0000 2010

@simoneandthesea - Compliments? Unnecessary? Interesting, but you are still welcome =) Sat Sep 04 01:43:08 +0000 2010

@Ndege - Our place in history? How oddly. Sat Sep 04 01:42:11 +0000 2010

@Ndege are you sure @JosephLane isn't just preoccupied with his Glen Beck coloring book? Sat Sep 04 01:41:28 +0000 2010

You aren't too bright, are you? I like that in a man. ~ Body Heat Sat Sep 04 01:40:27 +0000 2010

@Ndege - tonight I am in strange mode -- beware of random and chaotic thoughts. Sat Sep 04 01:38:25 +0000 2010

@Ndege @JosephLane - What debaucherous conversation shall we partake in this evening? Sat Sep 04 01:35:56 +0000 2010

@Ndege - It lives! #rafiki #buddy #pal Sat Sep 04 01:34:33 +0000 2010

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity - Biloxi Blues Sat Sep 04 01:31:21 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Right! Coffee! I forgot the nature of the offending liquid! I knew it was something wet ... =) Sat Sep 04 01:26:51 +0000 2010
Write drunk; edit sober. - Ernest Hemingway Sat Sep 04 01:26:05 +0000 2010

Half this game is ninety percent mental. - Yogi Berra #ShutUpAndWrite Sat Sep 04 01:23:05 +0000 2010

@simoneandthesea -Nice photography! I have a site for my photos too. I'm not exactly a pro or anything ... http://inkypaw.wordpress.com/ Sat Sep 04 01:22:03 +0000 2010

Ah rain. You spur on this writer's soul ... Sat Sep 04 01:17:10 +0000 2010

#FF to Friend and Writer @salamicat =) Sat Sep 04 01:15:33 +0000 2010

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. ~ Dazed and confused Sat Sep 04 01:14:08 +0000 2010

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde Sat Sep 04 01:12:28 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Isn't that the same keyboard that you spilled your Rum onto? Sat Sep 04 01:11:21 +0000 2010

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~ Pablo Picasso Sat Sep 04 01:09:00 +0000 2010

#FF to @DocumentDriven .... =) Sat Sep 04 01:08:42 +0000 2010

“None but ourselves can free our minds.” ~ Bob Marley⊰¨*•♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Sat Sep 04 01:07:17 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - How have you been? Everything good in your world? Sat Sep 04 01:05:47 +0000 2010

#FF to @PeevishPenman ... great conversation, good writer talk ... Sat Sep 04 01:05:00 +0000 2010

♡#luv♡ ⓣⓞ ❥ #Ƒ๏ℓℓ๏ωFriday @TracyClark_TLC, @KarenOleet and @ficwriter ❧❀❧♥¸.•*¨*•♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Sat Sep 04 01:02:33 +0000 2010

@JosephLane - Well, it's cool and rainy for a change, excellent writing weather (Summer's gone? Summer's gone ...) all is well .. Sat Sep 04 01:00:16 +0000 2010

#Ƒ๏ℓℓ๏ωFriday Luv to @SpinMyNovel, @MerleChloe, @KimFanBolt, @breukelen_girl, and @911editing ... Sat Sep 04 00:59:15 +0000 2010

♡#luv♡ ⓣⓞ ❥ #Ƒ๏ℓℓ๏ωFriday @LornaSuzuki, #Imago writer and lovely lady ... Sat Sep 04 00:58:03 +0000 2010

#Ƒ๏ℓℓ๏ωFriday to @LaynaPimentel, @10MinuteWriter and the rest of the #ShutUpAndWrite crew .... Sat Sep 04 00:57:16 +0000 2010

♡#luv♡ ⓣⓞ ❥ #Ƒ๏ℓℓ๏ωFriday @VariantVal, @Ndege and @JosephLane Sat Sep 04 00:56:06 +0000 2010

#Ƒ๏ℓℓ๏ωFriday to: @Kno_Thyself, @DaveBartlett1 ... Sat Sep 04 00:55:24 +0000 2010

The blank page gives the right to dream. ~ Gaston Bachelard (Goodnight Folks Zz) Fri Sep 03 02:56:25 +0000 2010

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. ~ Ernest Hemingway Fri Sep 03 02:42:44 +0000 2010

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. ~ William Faulkner Fri Sep 03 02:37:34 +0000 2010

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. ~ Clifton Fadiman Fri Sep 03 02:30:38 +0000 2010

Is there anything e'er so powerful as a pen poised? #QuestionToTheUniverse Fri Sep 03 02:26:01 +0000 2010

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. ~ Jean de la Bruyère Fri Sep 03 02:23:57 +0000 2010

A book should be luminous, not voluminous. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee Fri Sep 03 02:21:13 +0000 2010

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! ~ Robert Browning Fri Sep 03 02:16:33 +0000 2010

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. ~ W. Somerset Maugham Fri Sep 03 02:10:10 +0000 2010

@LeviMontgomery - Sometimes I like to throw an interesting concept out into the universe -- against my better judgment! Fri Sep 03 02:08:07 +0000 2010

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. ~ Ezra Pound Fri Sep 03 02:06:11 +0000 2010

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? ~ Alexander Pope Fri Sep 03 02:05:21 +0000 2010

@LeviMontgomery - Yes, the denouement. Fri Sep 03 02:02:13 +0000 2010

RT @LeviMontgomery - Story is about wants that can't be met. (I Like) Fri Sep 03 01:59:24 +0000 2010

@JenniferBWhite - Yes, I admit, Novels need characters LOL Fri Sep 03 01:56:12 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - No thanks. We're getting our own rain tomorrow. =) Fri Sep 03 01:55:03 +0000 2010

Can a novel be written without any characters? #AvanteGardeQuestion Fri Sep 03 01:54:03 +0000 2010

Writing is the supreme solace. ~ W. Somerset Maugham Fri Sep 03 01:52:30 +0000 2010

@LaynaPimentel - It's the heat. Can't stand it anymore! #NeedCoolness Fri Sep 03 01:51:42 +0000 2010

Yeah, I'm writing. What's it to you?? #ShutUpAndWrite Fri Sep 03 01:49:09 +0000 2010

#FF to The Rip-Roaring Residents of Twitter's Random Writing Revolution @Alex_Carrick and @Donna_Carrick Fri Sep 03 01:43:09 +0000 2010

@ricksanchezcnn - Fair enough, and thanks for the reply. PS: next time, perhaps a bit of forewarning about such a video? Fri Sep 03 01:11:21 +0000 2010

I am a drinker with writing problems. ~ Brendan Behan Fri Sep 03 01:01:34 +0000 2010

I've been working on my book so much that I'm out of Blogger mode now. Didn't even know writers HAD modes. Fri Sep 03 01:01:07 +0000 2010

Well, Stephen Hawking is the top Twitter Trend. Some semblance of order has been restored to the universe. Fri Sep 03 00:58:44 +0000 2010

Twitter is not only the world's biggest cocktail party, but it's a 24/7 talk show too. Fri Sep 03 00:56:03 +0000 2010

I agree with @nickolaswriter, RE @ricksanchezcnn : How does showing a video about drowning puppies benefit humanity? Fri Sep 03 00:54:27 +0000 2010