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Inspirational Quotations
"The first chapter is the last chapter in disguise."
--Richard Peck
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Reading: Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Writing: short story: Of Snow-Jewelled Hills and Ice
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4/4/2005, 3:37 pm
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Re: Inspirational Quotations
"Cross out every sentence until you come to one you cannot do without.
That is your beginning."
--Gary Provost, writer and writing teacher
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Reading: Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
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4/15/2005, 6:18 pm
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Re: Inspirational Quotations
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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READING: Not Wanted on the Voyage, Timothy Findlay
WRITING: a love story (planning stage)
PROPPING UP: Being Practically Creative
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Re: Inspirational Quotations
Not sure how 'inspirational' this one is, but I thought it funny--and appropriate. In response to another writer's mixture of good and bad news:
"Tis ever the way of the writer: chicken one day, feathers the next."
- Matt Hughes,
Canadian SF writer
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Reading: Low Port ed. by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Rewriting: short story: The Price of Roses
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Re: Inspirational Quotations
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. The approach must involve getting something down on the page: something good, mediocre or even bad. It is essential to the writing process that we unlearn all those seductive high school maxims about waiting for inspiration. The wait is simply too long.
--Leonard S. Bernstein
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"I write. The longer I live, the more convinced I become that I cultivate my truest self in this one way. I pay more attention when I'm writing, and I hear myself more clearly when I'm writing . . . If I'm not doing it now, I should be."
--Tom Chiarella, Collecting Myself (Why I Write, edited by Will Blythe)
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Reading: Nothing at the moment
Rewriting: One's Aspect To The Sun (novel)
Editing: Winter Unwitched (short story)
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Re: Inspirational Quotations
Succinct:
"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."
--Epictetus
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Reading: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Rewriting: One's Aspect To The Sun (novel)
Editing: Winter Unwitched (short story)
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Re: Inspirational Quotations
There is only one thing wrong with this ending
- its too far from the beginning!
Waldorf & Statler
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6/24/2005, 3:36 pm
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Re: Inspirational Quotations
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again
and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success -- but only if you persist.
--Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
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Reading: Eternity's End by Jeffrey A. Carver
Rewriting: One's Aspect To The Sun (novel)
Editing: Winter Unwitched (short story)
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