Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Writing exertion?

Do you feel drained when you write? Worn out? Exhausted? Here is an interesting quote.... "Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The right word or the almost right word.

I think I gravitate toward writing shorter peices because of picking the right word. I am amazed by novels that read like poetry in that every word is the perfect word for it's spot in the story. That is how I write poems, but they end up needing up to a hundred revisions in order to get them... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 23, 2007

E.L. Doctorow observed, "Writng novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." For me, the most important thing in writing is to get more and more words on the page. In some ways, Blogit feels like a very big coffee shop... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

...deprivation.....

Sometimes the process of writing feels like personal deprivation--giving up of time and energy and risking what others may think or say about your work. May Sarton captures a much deeper meaning of deprivation as a writer, a meaning that transcends the inherent costs of the writing process....... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Giving....

I think that 'giving' is something that writer's do--pouring joy and sweat and tears and life's blood on the pages... "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." -Author Unknown Sign in to see full entry.

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