Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Sunday, October 3, 2004

'Imagination' is where we all begin as writers....

...and this playful quote captures the "child-side" of imagination for me. Hope you enjoy it too. "So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering."-Brenda Ueland Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 2, 2004

A day full of living with very little time for writing.

And I have eight hundred and fifty words to crank out before midnight eastern standard time. Thirty one minutes to go. Oh my! Well, I did get a little written earlier today. Should I feel stressed. If I let myself get too upset about the precarious balance between having a very full life and making... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 1, 2004

Increasing my daily word count.

I have two hundred words to go, to meet my daily eight hundred words. My gracious, is this hard at the end of a very long day that started at 6:30 this morning with packing school lunches. Oh well. I want to write. and I want to write more than I am doing now. Hence signing up for the writing... Sign in to see full entry.

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The hard work of writing....

This makes me ponder the hours and months and years that go into the making of a writer. Whatever else you do to become a writer, one must write and write and then write some more. What joy when the result LOOKs effortless. "It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 30, 2004

Regular writing.

I am trying to do this - to write every single day now. Next month I have signed up for an escalating word challenge where the required word count goes up every day of the month. Oh my! "You just sit down and write every day for three or four hours. You do it like piano scales until you have a story... Sign in to see full entry.

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