Rerun: On Vacation!

 

THPP: Brainstorming

Short Film Friday: A Crimson Man

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.

—Virginia Woolf

You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker. This is a depressing thought for a writer.

—Andy Rooney

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. 

—Nadine Gordimer

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

—Ernest Hemingway

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. 

—Stephen King

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

—Charlaine Harris

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

—Hunter S. Thompson

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

—Neil Gaiman

New Days Ahead

 

THPP E31 - Heroes

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Short Film Friday: Beyond

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week

Remember we are mortal, but poetry is not.

—Patti Smith

If a writer falls in love with you, you'll never die.

—Unknown

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

—Stephen King

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

—Sylvia Plath

If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down.

—Toni Morrison

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, I'll write it. 

—Johnny Cash

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. Just do it and the confidence will follow.

—Carrie Fisher—

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Cat Butts...

 

THPP E30 - Happy Hour!

Short Film Friday: State Zero

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

—Sylvia Plath

If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down.

—Toni Morrison

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, I'll write it. 

—Johnny Cash

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. Just do it and the confidence will follow.

—Carrie Fisher

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

—Arthur Miller

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one. 

—M.F.K. Fisher

One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.

—John Berryman 

Spring and Gnomes

 

THPP E29: Dialog

Short Film Friday: Lunatique

Art that Inspires

 

Quotes of the Week

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. 

—Albert Einstein

One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.

—John Berryman

I am not responsible for the ideas and opinions that my characters express.

—William Faulkner

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

—Katherine Hepburn

The first person you should think of pleasing in writing a book is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publishers and the readers can and will come later.

—Patricia Highsmith

Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

—John Cleese

Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You cannot describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

—James Baldwin

The profession of book writing makes horse racing look like a solid, stable business.

—John Steinbeck

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Getting closer...

 

THPP E28: 5 Ways to Find an Agent