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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955 Continue reading Never Stop Fighting
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.— Mark Twain I received the phone call yesterday morning, acceptance into college. Continue reading Surround Yourself with Support
“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others’ minds.” Alfred Kazin When I first started writing fiction I felt powerful…I had the ability to create characters, fill their mouths with my words, give Continue reading 8 Rules for Writing Fiction
Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night. ~Glade Byron Addams Over lunch the other day a friend and I discussed our waxing and waning passion for our writing work. I lamented that I sometimes wished Continue reading catching the last bus of the night…
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books – what other men do not say in whole books. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche More on brevity so I’ll be brief. How seriously do you Continue reading Just six sentences…
If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun” The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~Thomas Jefferson A Continue reading Words on Brevity
“Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.” Anthony Robbins On Tuesday night Pikes Peak Writers held its Write Brain Continue reading What’s Your Focus for 2008?
“Without music, life would be an error.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Where words fail, music speaks.” Hans Christian Andersen “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” Victor Hugo I posted the Smiths video as a mantra Continue reading Music and Writing