inspiration, creative writing prompts, motivational quotes, poetry and gentle nagging on the creative writing life…
To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage. Georgia O’Keeffe On my quick little weekend jaunt to Santa Fe and back I had to stop and visit the Georgia O’Keeffe museum again. The museum owns 1/2 Continue reading Home from Santa Fe
“. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . Continue reading M.F.K. Fisher-Food Writer
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.Ernest Hemingway Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you Continue reading In Honor of Hemingway
My sister sent me this link. I can just imagine the frustration and then determination of this young man to write letters to his family and friends.
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life Continue reading A Hunger for Life
“Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.” Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby My nemesis has always been procrastination, I could get my work done early, do a little every day, until the due date where I hand it in calmly, Continue reading Self-sabotage?
I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease… observing a spear of summer grass.Walt Continue reading If Whitman Listened to His Critics…
One of the books I “found” when I cleaned out my office was this one. You know you have too many books when you have no recollection of either buying the book or cracking its spine. I haven’t read it Continue reading Pencil Dancing
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS LiteraryMary, journal of the beautiful, unusual and eclectic, will be publishing our first ever print issue in January of 2009, in celebration of the second anniversary of our steadily growing website of the same name. We are Continue reading Call for Submissions