inspiration, creative writing prompts, motivational quotes, poetry and gentle nagging on the creative writing life…
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill. Edmund Morrison Without a doubt writing is a skill and although this Continue reading Stone by Stone
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~Henry David Thoreau When I’m feeling the least bit of doubt about continuing on a path of creativity I think about Bishop Castle. Continue reading One Man’s Castle
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. ~Arthur Polotnik There are essays that have been in my head for years but Continue reading What’s Burning Inside You?
I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time to time, and speak, when invited to writers’ circles and at summer schools, and I’m continually amazed at Continue reading Read, read and then read some more
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~E.L. Doctorow I think you have to get beyond “yourself” as a writer to Continue reading Warning Hazard Ahead!
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.Hart Crane, American Poet (1899-1932) I love the idea of being drenched in words. I don’t Continue reading Drenched in Words
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.Elie Wiesel Could I live without writing? Well, yes I could but I would feel incomplete. I have tried over the years not to write, I Continue reading Can you live without writing?
Let me walk through the fields of papertouching with my wanddry stems and stuntedbutterflies….~Denise Levertov, “A Walk through the Notebooks” One of my favorite words is evocative. Words,stories and poems can be evocative, bringing the reader into your world and Continue reading The Visual Writer
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.– Barbara Kingsolver Maybe you’re not on a writing schedule, maybe you only write when you are inspired, or maybe you say you don’t have time to write. I hear Continue reading Just 15 minutes a day…
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams I think so many times we don’t allow ourselves the mistakes. And that is a problem because we can get too complacent and our Continue reading Allow the mistakes…and create great art.