Just a quote…
“It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.” Sinclair Lewis
Stumbling Over Pebbles
“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.” Author Unknown For many people (me included) sometimes our goals Continue reading Stumbling Over Pebbles
Life is energy
“Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock Continue reading Life is energy
900 Ways To Talk About Creative Writing
“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 900 Ways To Talk About Creative Writing
Dread, drop and an add
This morning I’m going through my old writing notebooks when I find several pages of To Do lists…it’s interesting yet not too surprising that some of the things I still haven’t done and they were from five years ago. Did Continue reading Dread, drop and an add
A Writer and a Poet’s Best Friend
“Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” Henry David Thoreau I am lucky that I live in a very walkable area, I can walk to work, to the library and on a Continue reading A Writer and a Poet’s Best Friend
Standing In Our Own Light
“Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?” Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton Happy Groundhog Day! Punxsutawney Phil says six more weeks of winter today…and it looks like we’re Continue reading Standing In Our Own Light
The Shortest Month
February (click to read the rest of the poem) “The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February’s mercury vapor light buffing but not defrosting the bone-white ground, crusty and treacherous underfoot.” Bill Christophersen The theme for NaBloPoMo for the month Continue reading The Shortest Month
Under the snow
“Surely as cometh the Winter, I know there are spring violets under the snow.” R.H. Newell Although I have been a member of NaBloPoMo for some time, I don’t think that I have ever successfully posted every day of the Continue reading Under the snow
Cash for Used Books
Just wondering if anyone has used this service? I put a few books into the search engine and my used books were running $2.75-$4.00. It looks like they pay the postage if you have enough to sell. As soon as Continue reading Cash for Used Books