"A working writer is irresistible to the Muse."

"The first million words you write are crap." (attributed to Ray Bradbury)

"I love writing. It's the paperwork I can't stand." (lol!)

"I got married once--to avoid writing." (New Yorker cartoon)

"Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out."

"You should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago Elenya commented about work encroaching into all aspects of her life, leaving her little time to write and sending her to bed each night mind-numbed with exhaustion. (Elenya, I hope I paraphrased you more or less accurately. :))

We’re all there or have been there. I am very grateful to have arrived at a point in my life when I ( Read more... )

Elenya, Pearl, and Peachy have all given me thoughts about writing to write about. I’ll pick one at random and go with that.

Peachy says that she wrote her autobiography when she was about twelve. Knowing Peachy, that would be an interesting read whether she spent her childhood wrangling crocodiles or was a quiet child just sharing the contents of ( Read more... )

The operative word here is "blogging," which is a more informal, stream-of-consciousness activity than writing and endlessly revising an essay or story. It’s a genre I’m trying to master because-well, mainly because I want to. And because I believe that those happy hours we spent posting on Harem and Tolkien topics got all of us thinking on our ( Read more... )

...and me.  It's 9:30 on a lovely autumn morning (high predicted today is 90 degrees F) and I'm still in my jammies.

This is a big year for me.  My dad died two months short of his 60th birthday, and I turn 59 today.  Yeeks.  I stand to have inherited either sparkling health and long life from my mother's side, or massive physical and mental ( Read more... )