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WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:About Writing Justin – “Sentence Length” – Advice on sentence length. Writing Nag – “What Don Freeman Taught Me About Story” – Corduroy is a children’s book but this favorite celebrated 40 years this year. Continue reading WOOF Winners
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. Christina Baldwin I’ve been journaling most of my adult life collecting quotes, overheard conversations, poetry starts, words I like, bits of sentences, books to read, movies to watch, directions to a restaurant Continue reading The Art of Journaling
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You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. ~Author Unknown I thought about putting off this post until tomorrow but Saturday is my Anti-Procrastination Day. If you’re familiar with the Fly-Lady website she has Continue reading Anti-Procrastination Day
“The breezes tasteOf apple peel.The air is fullOf smells to feel-Ripe fruit, old footballs,Burning brush,New books, erasers,Chalk, and such.The bee, his hive,Well-honeyed hum,And Mother cutsChrysanthemums.Like plates washed cleanWith suds, the daysAre polished withA morning haze.”– John Updike, September Now that Continue reading September feels like…
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein I can’t believe it’s Wednesday already, I finished up the kitchen yesterday and spent most of the day Continue reading Out of clutter find simplicity
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. ~H.M. Tomlinson
In cleaning out the garage this month I found my copy of Corduroy by Don Freeman, published in 1968 it tells the story of Corduroy the bear and his adventure in a department store before he is bought by a Continue reading What Don Freeman Taught Me About Story
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis, and we’d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, Continue reading Chuckleheads?