Writing

The Void

The entire cast of know-it-all, know nothing so-called leaders of the free world, are all aboard an all expenses gladfully paid for, at the taxpayers expense, a non-returnable flight, on the spaceship emptiness. It is heading straight on into the void, and will never be heard from again.

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. ~Jim Henson

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake. ~Aimee Bender

A Sheet Of Paper

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. Friedrich Nietzsche

Write … write … pencil … paper. ~ Heinrich Heine

For What Its Worth

Thinking positive about one’s self, is a good thing.

Just Thinking

nobody ever said that writing comes easy

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -John Fowles

Three Things

bloggers blogging poets posting writers writing

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

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.

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 sufferContinue reading “The City”

One Liner

All ye caffeine junkies, drink up, and get wired.

Six Word Story

Chasing the American dream. Its elusive.

Writing Quote ~ Jose Saramago

Quote Master

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.

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

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.’” ~ TimContinue reading “Always read with a pen in your hands,… ~ Tim Parks”

“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 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

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

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

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 notContinue reading “Short Story”

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 theyContinue reading “Short Story”

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 thankfulContinue reading “Quick Fiction”

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.

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,Continue reading “100 Word Story”

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 thatContinue reading “Deadline ~ A 100 Word Story”

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

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.

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.” 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 wasContinue reading “100 Word Story”

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 andContinue reading “100 Word Story”