You Would Not Believe It

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Quote of the Day:
“I woke up the other morning with a complete story in my mind – a story I’d never even dreamt of writing, never even thought of before. That can happen to anybody. You have to give yourself material, though. You’ve got to treat the human mind constantly with ideas. The human mind, [...]

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Do I Have to Come Out From Under the Covers?

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Quote of the Day:
“The way a long work is completed is by daily tapping the first imaginative impulse. That’s got to be so strong that it never dies in the course of the whole performance.”
– Paul Horgan
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Okay, I have been seen about without the covers here and there. Only I end up being overwhelmed and [...]

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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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The Digital Age

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Quote of the Day:
“The patriarchal world – meaning the white man, basically – deals with knots by just cutting through them, which never teaches you anything. Whereas untying a knot teaches you because you really have to work at it.”
– Alice Walker
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Before March 17, I saw several notices a day about upgrading your TV if [...]

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Weather Peek-a-Boo

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Quote of the Day:
“[On Richard Wright] One day, as Wright and I walked together to the elevated station, he turned to me and said, ‘Margaret, if a voice speaks within you, you can live’.”
– Margaret Walker
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I woke up a little earlier than the past few days. This feels good. Sometimes I realize I don’t have [...]

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