The Wind Quieted Down

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Quote of the Day:
“When I was young, I was always amazed that out of such profound rage, one could end by writing quite calmly. One reacts rather strongly, but as a writer, one distills that down. If those responses were not strong, probably one would not be a writer.”
– V.S. Naipaul
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The sky is overcast and [...]

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You Can’t Eat Just One

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Quote of the Day:
“Writing songs is as exhilarating as ever. I get a very satisfied feeling that I never get in any other part of my life. But most of the time you’re walking around having little temper tantrums, waiting for it.”
– Paul Simon
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I know when Ostara/Easter is coming because Peeps have appeared in the [...]

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Shopping and Birthdays

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Quote of the Day:
“I think we’re going to see in the world in a short amount of years a real transition. We’re entering the creative age. Everybody has creativity. If I were to teach young people I would find in each of them their potential. Creativity is after all the thing that makes us like [...]

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Write Right

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Quote of the Day:
“When I’m not writing, I can’t make sense out of anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I’ve found that seems to begin to do that. Even if the story or the novel ends up saying there is no [...]

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A Gray and Dreary Day

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Quote of the Day:
“I was still under a depressed state when I began to write with considerable gusto, and then it came back to me again, this thing that had dogged me all those years. . . a nemesis or something that haunts you. . . It’s a kind of counterdrive not to write.”
– Henry [...]

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Staying In the Moment

Staying In the Moment
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Quote of the Day:
“When I’m writing a book, I’m writing out of my own search. . . What I get I get via intuition, feeling. I sit with a blank page. I try to focus my whole being on what it is I’m searching for. Then that becomes the focus of attention [...]

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Staying In the Moment

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Quote of the Day:
“When I’m writing a book, I’m writing out of my own search. . . What I get I get via intuition, feeling. I sit with a blank page. I try to focus my whole being on what it is I’m searching for. Then that becomes the focus of attention in my whole [...]

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Trying to Take It Easy and Get Housework Done

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Quote of the Day:
“Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time. . .  The antidote to envy is one’s own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But [...]

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Just What Are We Paying the Postal Service For?

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Quote of the Day:
“One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled too.”
– Cynthia Ozick
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Where are those words? I started my computer [...]

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Surprises in the Mail

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Quote of the Day:
“There are no good stories. Only the singer really matters, seldom the song. What a writer brings to any story is an attitude, an attitude usually defined by the wound stripes of life”
– John Gregory Dunne
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Yesterday and today were lovely days and it looks like tomorrow will be more of the same. [...]

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