The more I’ve promoted Write Right’s Emergency Hope Kit, the more Dean Young’s words come to mind. He’s speaking of writing, but he says it’s the “horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.”
Writing Life
Launching Satellites
A newly released film is like a satellite. It might transmit or not. I’m on the ground and have to find something else to do. – Keith Maitland
How to be a Better Writer: Talk about Your Projects
Writers tend to keep details about their upcoming work close to their vests, which isn’t surprising. Their ideas may not yet be fully formed. They may have been told to remain quiet about the “particulars” by their publisher or publicist. Even so, they should talk about their upcoming projects. [Read more…] about How to be a Better Writer: Talk about Your Projects
On Writing: Loaves and Fishes
Writing is like giving away the few loaves and fishes one has, trusting that they will multiply in the giving. – Henri Nouwen, from his Reflections on Theological Education
Writing – perhaps all art forms – dwell within the habitudes of uncertainty and bewilderment. I enter into the act of creating not knowing if I’ll create anything. A doubt underlies the thought: perhaps I’ve drawn my last drawing already, perhaps I have no more words to write. [Read more…] about On Writing: Loaves and Fishes
Worthwhile Things Take Work
Worthwhile things take work. – Jon Dansby, The Austin Stone
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Go after Inspiration
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. – Jack London
Inspiration. Love it or hate it, it exists. It’s just hard to find. You think you have it cornered only to find yourself standing in a dead-end alley. [Read more…] about Go after Inspiration