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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. This proverb is attributed to Vermonters. It says a lot about not talking just to hear yourself speak, there is something wonderful about comfortable silence. I just bought my tickets…in less than Continue reading Improving the silence
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve been painting the Continue reading Wild, Creative Delight
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams It’s hard to be patient in our instant gratification nation. Yet when it comes to creative writing patience and perseverance are key. For Continue reading Patience and Perseverance
“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but Continue reading A reality common to us all
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. ~Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927 This week Continue reading Half a Loaf
“My goal in life is to be the exact same person to you, whether you’ve met me for the first time or the 21st time. Your knowledge of me is there from the beginning in an honest, brutal sort of Continue reading Finding Your Voice
I know this doesn’t have anything to do with writing but it went along with my studies last semester.
WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:About Writing – Writing Nag – “5 Ways to Face Down Rejection”Poetry Robert Bourne – “Hope” Jennifer M Scott – “Waiting for September”Fiction – Jenn H. – “The Birth Announcement”Prose/Non-Fiction – Mike Fried – “There’s Continue reading WOOF Contest Results
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 Yesterday was a really hard day. It was my mentor’s memorial Continue reading The Importance of Having a Mentor
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of Continue reading Crowded on a velvet cushion…