inspiration, creative writing prompts, motivational quotes, poetry and gentle nagging on the creative writing life…
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. George Eliot It is October, and the last time I posted was in June. I’m Continue reading Do you seek the successive autumns?
It was amazing the things a person could get used to when they really had no other choice.” Vivian Barz, Forgotten Bones Everything seems to be getting back to “normal” or what normal used to be pre-Covid. I’m back at Continue reading moving forward
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. And that is my answer, when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love?” M.F.K. Fisher in ‘The Continue reading Firecakes and monkey bread
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use Continue reading Great Rules of Writing
“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find Continue reading 10 Ways to Improve your Writing
Sunday 27th December 1801 A fine soft beautiful, mild day with gleams of sunshine. I lay in bed till 12 o clock, Mr Clarkson’s man came, we wrote to him…Dorothy Wordsworth The Grasmere Journals I’ve kept a journal for more Continue reading A fine soft beautiful day
The writer spreads the fragrance of new flowers, an abundance of sprouting buds. Lu Chi (261-303), from The Art of Writing, translated by Sam Hamill The last month has been hurried…finishing up end of the year paperwork, opening Continue reading The Fragrance of New Flowers
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. Laura Ingalls Wilder I spent about an hour yesterday at The City Continue reading Vintage Christmas Cat Postcards
“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.” Mark Twain For most children their Continue reading All speckled with stars