Writing
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Six Words
Read a book. Nourishing mind food. Continue reading
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For What its Worth
President Joe Biden wears a $10,000 Rolex watch. Some people on the right are making a big deal of it. Me personally, I really don’t give a fuck what he wears. Give me a break. Continue reading
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Winter
Windy and cold Wind chill factors Its January Its winter This is what its all about Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Four years of whatever you want to call it, soon will be just a distant memory. History will not treat it kindly. Continue reading
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Six Words
1/20/2021. The end is in sight. Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Yesterday was the old norm. Today, the new one. Tomorrow? Continue reading
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Six Words Redux Again
New day. New challenges, or not. Continue reading
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Six Words Redux
Beautiful day to kick back. Yep! Continue reading
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Six Words
New year. New month. New day. Continue reading
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Read What You Want To Read
“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.” ~ Joyce Carol Oates Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Thinking positive about one’s self, is a good thing. Continue reading
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Just Thinking
nobody ever said that writing comes easy Continue reading
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Short, Short Story
The half-whacked preacher, is speaking the unspeakable of a lewd and lascivious nature. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Short Short Story
Trekking with the numerous lost souls. The journey continues on. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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A Pondering Moment
Write using the right words and then it will look and read right. Continue reading
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On Writing
writing a post even a so-called simple one is not as easy as it seems Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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“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) Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. ~ Samuel Johnson
Source note: Johnsonian Misellanies (1966 edition) Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Six Word Story
A head filled with scatterbrain ideas. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Life Worth Living
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Believe
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. -Arthur Koestler Continue reading
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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) Continue reading
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Writing
You can make anything by writing. -C.S. Lewis Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Writing
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac On Writing
Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969 AZQuotes.com Continue reading
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Jack Lemmon On Writing
Born: February 8, 1925 – Died: June 27, 2001 AZQuotes.com Continue reading
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Robert De Niro On Writers
Born: August 17, 1943 AZQuotes.com Continue reading
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty of words. Edgar Allan Poe Continue reading
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