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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.Antoine de Saint-Exupery This writing prompt calendar will help when you’re staring at the blank screen. Now Continue reading Need Writing Prompts Each Month?
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Continue reading Autumn is Right Around the Corner
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” Sylvester Stallone I don’t have any statistics on creative writing rejections. I do know that many best-selling authors often Continue reading 5 Ways to Face Down Rejection
To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –True Poems flee.~Emily Dickinson I wonder what Emily meant by “true poems flee”, I’m sure it is open to interpretation but after a hiatus I am ready Continue reading True Poems Flee
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental Continue reading Change Your Life One Thought At A Time
Practice, practice, practice writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.Jeffrey A. Carver
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. ~ Richard Bach Part of my schools philosophy Continue reading On Education
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.William Faulkner We went to the mountains to escape the heat, Crested Butte was about Continue reading Three Things A Writer Needs
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, Continue reading Just a Quote