Tag Archives: Writing
Three Things
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence build towards it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Brain Cramp
have no idea what to write
Short, Short Story
The half-whacked preacher, is speaking the unspeakable of a lewd and lascivious nature.
I Write Differently ~ Franz Kafka
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~ Franz Kafka
Short, Short Story
Caught stealing his neighbor’s newspaper, he declared depraved indifference.
R.I.P Toni Morrison
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate
Reading ~ Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, It’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. ~ Maya Angelou
Six Word Story
Pedestrians ignoring the street corner preacher.
Short, Short Story
Mr Positive debates Mr Negative. Egos clash. Neither comes out a winner. Both egos deflated.
Short Short Story
Trekking with the numerous lost souls. The journey continues on.
Easy Reading ~ Maya Angelou
Read Everything ~ William Faulkner
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ~ William Faulkner, Born: […]
Six Word Story
Traveling the infinite highway to freedom.
The City
people on the stoops watching the passersby hydrants open spraying cool water on the neighborhood kids ice cream truck has arrived people lining up to buy and enjoy an ice cream or something cold to drink to hot cook inside so pizza and sandwiches are the meals for the hungry the ones without a/c suffer […]
One Liner
All ye caffeine junkies, drink up, and get wired.
Six Word Story
Chasing the American dream. Its elusive.
Six Word Story
Conversing with unicorns and glow worms.
Writing Quote ~ Jose Saramago
Quote Master
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. ~ Jack Kerouac
Short Story
During his morning stroll, the elderly man is curious, as to how many bricks did they use in making the one block long sidewalk. Maybe one day, he will find the answer, by the tedious task of counting the red rectangular blocks of clay.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. ~ Stephen King
A Mystery
Watching a mysterious mystery which in turn is a total mystery to figure out as its a complete and ultimate mystery to seek answers to the mystery of all mysteries
A Pondering Moment
Write using the right words and then it will look and read right.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac
Six Word Story
No coffee, her day is doomed.
Practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? ~ Stephen King
On Writing
writing a post even a so-called simple one is not as easy as it seems
I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork. ~ Peter De Vries
Six Word Story
Flailing about. Yelling loudly. Hot tempered.
Eight Word Story
Conversing in the hallway, aka the neutral zone.
Always read with a pen in your hands,… ~ Tim Parks
“Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed … Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write ‘splendid,’ but also, ‘I don’t believe a word of it.’ And even ‘bullshit.’” ~ Tim […]
“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
“Why don’t you write books people can read?” – Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. ~ Jules Renard
It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly. ~ C. J. Cherryh
Carolyn Janice Cherry Pen Name: C. J. Cherryr, American writer of speculative fiction.
“The only reason to write is from love.” ~ Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim, Composer, Born: March 22, 1930
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel, German Poet – 1772-1829 (age 56)
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. ~ Horace
Horace, Ancient Roman Poet
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ~ Edwin Schlossberg
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. ~ Samuel Johnson
Source note: Johnsonian Misellanies (1966 edition)
Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. ~ Thomas Berger
Television has raised writing to a new low. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. ~ Anonymous
I Think A Writer’s Job Is To Provoke Questions. ~ Doris Lessing Quote
“I think a writer’s job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone’s read a book of mine, they’ve had – I don’t know what – the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That’s what I think writers are for. This […]
The Mind Of A Writer ~ Robert De Niro
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.” ~ Robert De Niro
Being Independent
Writing Slowly With Revisions ~ Jack Kerouac
“I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” ~ Jack Kerouac
On Writing ~ E. L. Doctorow
One Sentence Fiction
He’s known as the ‘why’ man, for he is always asking the why of everything.
Six Word Story
A head filled with scatterbrain ideas.
Reading Quote: Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. -Maya Angelou
Quote: Stephen King, Writing
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. -Stephen King
Franz Kafka Quotation: Darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~Franz Kafka
One Sentence Fiction
She’s savoring the all around beauty, of the numerous wild flowers.
One Sentence Fiction
She lives in a household full of mad, whacked-out people.
Six Word Story
Living the life of a nomad.
Six Word Story
Her Sunday breakfast special, soupy pancakes.
William Faulkner Quote
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner
Six Word Story
The daily daydreamers bus has arrived.
Life Worth Living
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” – Jack Kerouac
Two Things
One Sentence Fiction
Willie and Wilma are at the kitchen table, drinking day-old brewed coffee, and both are wondering why it tastes like shit.
One Sentence Fiction
She’s basking in the fake sun, reading fake news, and working on her fake tan.
Short Fiction
Delusional thoughts, warped ideas, a mind full of fabrications and he believes, that whatever he says is the truth, when he damn well knows they are lies, bullshit, etc., etc….
Short Story
She knew the weather is bad, but she was determined to venture out to the bodega, to get milk, as she had none left. Bundled up, she encountered white out conditions, and soon enough, she got disoriented, and didn’t know where she was. The next morning her son woke up, and his mother was not […]
Stephen King Quote
One Sentence Fiction
Agnes, the goddess of children’s story telling.
Believe
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. -Arthur Koestler
Short Story
he awoke around 2:00 am and he couldn’t get back to sleep he decided to thrown on some clothes and take a walk the air was warm and it made him feel good ambling on down the street he sees two women in black heels totally naked standing at the corner as he approached they […]
Quick Fiction
Sam was in his glory, as the woman behind the counter, gave him a bag of day old muffins and doughnuts. She also filled his thermos with fresh brewed coffee. Sam is homeless, and has no job. He forages in the dumpsters for returnable cans and bottles, which keeps him busy. Now he is thankful […]
Everything In Life Is Writable
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Short Story
She said, your hearing me, but not listening. He said, oh.
Quick Fiction
He never does what the play book says to do. Just wings it, and hopes for the best out come.
Writing
You can make anything by writing. -C.S. Lewis
I Write Differently …. – Franz Kafka
100 Word Story
He: Did he do it? She: What did he do? He: I’m asking you, did he do it? She: What did he do? He: You know what he did. She: I have know idea what you are talking about. He: I think you do. She: You think, but you don’t know for sure. He; Well, […]
Telling Stories
Everybody has a story to tell Whether its fiction or reality interesting humorous or boring we should all give it a listen as we may learn something new and it might give the teller a stronger voice Yes we all are story tellers
Deadline ~ A 100 Word Story
The reporter for the local newspaper, fueled with excessive amounts of caffeine, is typing away like a mad man. His editor loves his work, even though he his in his own world, no one dares to tell him to slow down. The reason is, that a colleague told him to take a break, and that […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Writing
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon
One Sentence Fiction #15
He can never tell a lie with a straight face.
Jack Kerouac On Writing
Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969 AZQuotes.com
One Sentence Fiction #14
She sleeps soundly on a mattress filled with stiff straw.
One Sentence Fiction #13
He’s a nonstop babbling brook of misinformation.
Stephen King On Imagination
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination. -Stephen King
One Sentence Fiction #10
What can one say, about the guy who is known to have shit for brains.
Jack Lemmon On Writing
Born: February 8, 1925 – Died: June 27, 2001 AZQuotes.com
Robert De Niro On Writers
Born: August 17, 1943 AZQuotes.com
Short Story
He said, “Oh shit.” Â She told him to watch his mouth. So for the rest of the day, he looked into the hand held mirror, never to put it down.
100 Word Story
Standing under the spreading maple tree, he is fretting, and mumbling, as what he will say, to his long lost daughter. It’s been at least 10 plus years, that they had any contact. She finally showed up, and it was an awkward feeling. A few minutes passed by, and the angst he was feeling was […]
Quick Fiction
By day, he lives the life of a monk. In the evening, a con artist, is his vocation.
Story Story
The young couple, love dancing in the rain.
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty of words. Edgar Allan Poe
100 Word Story
Joel would do anything, to see his long, lost love. He would walk bare foot on hot coals, a bed of nails or a flooded street. She meant so much to him, but he could not understand why she refused to see him. He would give it one more try and talk to her and […]
Publishing Is A Business – Nicholas Sparks
Short Story
On almost any given night, the insomniacs congregate at the mid-town diner, with cups of coffee to discuss the different reasons, of the whys they cannot sleep.
Six Word Story
Preaching to the choir for harmony.
Short Story
The green look on his face says, he had something to eat, that certainly did not agree with him. Hello bathroom.
Ray Bradbury On Writing
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