Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. --- Joseph Campbell Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp on life. --- Hugh Sidey

Anybody can write an exciting story and make it interesting. The trick is to . . . write a quiet story and make it interesting. --- Hemingway

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. --- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever Sarah Dessen shared about her writing process this week on her blog. Any tidbits I can learn about the twisty-chaotic-magical nature of the writing process, makes me understand writing more deeply. This is… Continue reading Words that are Speaking to Me

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. --- Harvey Pekar

I don't create characters so much as I make room inside my heart for them to come and get me. I am drawn to characters who make me feel deeply --- make me mad, confuse me, make me wonder, break my heart, stagger me with what they are up against. --- Carolyn Coman

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

When you first start writing --- and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers --- you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence right that minute it's never going to show up again. And it isn't. But it doesn't matter --- another one will, and it'll probably be better.… Continue reading Words that are Speaking to Me

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