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.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Poetry as journal?
This is an amazing definition of poetry! "Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, September 1, 2006
This quote is so true...
"Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about."-Kit Reed It is so strange, how one's mind can be blank, with not sense of direction. You have to actually start writing before the ideas begin to really form. It doesn't make intuitive sense to me. The blank mind seems to be yelling,... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Does writing ever feel like cooking to you?
I often find myself using the analogy between the two. Here is a light-hearted quote that uses the comparison.... "Writing is like cooking...if you spill something, you should make it look like part of the act."-Jon Keeble I once wrote an essay centering on the analogy between writing and cooking.... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
This is an interesting idea....
...especially for a place like Blogit where writers of all levels of skills and interests type our words onto the screen.... "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."-Edwin Schlossberg Sign in to see full entry.