"There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and craft."

~Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 21 September 1957

I have my machete out right now and I'm starting to see the path. I hope to see roses some day.

"If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It's that simple. What you see is what you get."

--Annie DillardHow we use our time and opportunities has a great deal to do with ( Read more... )

"If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the bodies of your enemy float by."

--Japanese ProverbAnd how does this patient and wise Japanese proverb work finishing WIP's? Yes, my WIP's are not my enemy, although they may seem it some days. 2nd, you get nothing done if you just sit around waiting for it to happen. Especially writing! And ( Read more... )

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

Albus Dumbledore

I am under my steps with not one clear thought in my head, but a varied and drastically tangled bouquet of them. I don't have a clue as to what to write about writing this Wednesday. There is a bottleneck holding up my thoughts and ideas from becoming something tangible today ( Read more... )

"I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is ( Read more... )

I am a pensive dreamer this Wednesday. Some hang on to their religion or other people when they begin to feel adrift. I look to words and what I hope I have inside of me...

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ---Dale CarnegieI see fiction ( Read more... )

I don't have any long musings to prattle on about this Wednesday, just this quote that made so much good sense to me regarding my WIP ( Read more... )

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale ( Read more... )

Invitation ( Read more... )