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“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” -Henry David Thoreau. I am a firm believer that there is no one way in which a person can or should write, but one of the more interesting methods followed by man is the idea that you…
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Saturdays always seem to be the days in which I have the most difficulty thinking something to write here in this blog. Sometimes I skip it. I definitely didn’t want to skip it today because I’m a little behind on my word counts; I didn’t get a chance to do much work yesterday; instead of…
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Have you ever had one of those mornings where you wake up, nothing goes quite right, and you almost wonder if you should have never gotten up in the first place? That was my morning, for the most part, which is why you’re getting a post about my irritation with it rather than some long-winded…
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“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. This quote from Sylvia Plath touched on two things I’ve been feeling a lot of recently. The first reminds me of the…
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“‘Don’t judge either of us harshly, Clannon. This world is hard on the different ones, and there is no understanding. Only fear. “ “Seven from the Stars” by Marion Zimmer Bradly When they are stranded on a far-flung planet after their ship meets danger, seven space colonists from the Dvanthey federation find themselves facing more…
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With my first week of my first serious attempt at NaNoWriMo, which was also a week where I easily worked over 40 hours without a day off, I’ve definitely gained some interesting perspective. Despite how busy I was, despite all my other writing challenges, I still managed to plow through and make all my goals.…
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“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.” -Sydney Smith I’m keeping things fairly short and simple today; often, on Saturday mornings, I have difficulty…