Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Monday, October 18, 2004

Revision

There is a poem in my 'New Visions' blog. Let me share the intro to that page as it illustrates this quote.... This is a poem written from an experience I had in college. This poem has been revised and revised, and feels like a scupture that has emerged from marble. But the first transformation was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 17, 2004

Twelve hundred words to write tonight.

I am over a third of the way there. This day was so full that I didn't have time to write until tonight. Then I needed a break to eat something. Now I am feeling the time crunch. This month of writing more and more words each day is almost half over. I find it a leap of faith to believe I can keep... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 16, 2004

One thousand, one hundred and seventy five words.

That's my goal. And my words get 'published abroad' on the net. Somehow it feels really good to have at least a few people read what I write. This is so different from the laborous process of submitting poems to small press magazines. Even the ones that got published were read by very few readers.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wow! The maintenance on Blogit makes me aware of how integral this site

feels to my writing these days. Sign in to see full entry.

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I have been listening to NPR for the first time in ages.

Just a bit of it, because of pending elections. The negativity of the news is all-consuming, as well as the bias, if I am not careful. In addition to headlines, they were profiling writers. The one today talked about writing essentially being a shy person's way of communicating. For me it is much... Sign in to see full entry.

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