Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

The first time I appeared on stage, I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. I asked my manager backstage, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said, ‘Whatever it is, go back and do it again.’

—Elvis

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

—Will Rogers

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

—John Muir

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest. 

—Stephen King

Everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter...a book, a phrase learned.

—Anaïs Nin

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

—Ernest Hemingway

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

—Jack London

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not.

—Alanis Morissette

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

—E. L. Doctorow

 

Or is he...

 

The Hourlings Podcast Project, S2E12, Time Travel in Fiction

Toxic Tropes...

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

—Sylvia Plath

If your book doesn't keep you up nights writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

—James A. Michener

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

—Robert Frost

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

—Arthur Miller

Happiness is pursuing work that sustains the spirit.

—Walt Disney

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

—John Steinbeck

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

Philosophy for a Happy Life—

Someone to love, something to look forward to,

and something to do

—Elvis Presley

Summer Solstice

The Hourlings Podcast Project, S2E11, Handy Websites

Art that Inspires

 

Kindle, Paperback, Hardback, and Audible!

 

Summer bacon...

 

The Hourlings Podcast Project, S2E10, Astronomy

Short Film Friday!

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week

 

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

—Robin Williams

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

—Leo Tolstoy

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

—Patti Smith

Don't use no double negatives.

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

The passive voice should never be employed.

You should not use a big word when a diminutive would suffice.

About those sentence fragments.

Avoid clichés like the plague.

—William Safire

Don’t describe it, show it. That’s what I try to teach all young writers—take it out! Don’t describe a purple sunset, make me see that it is purple.

—James Baldwin

You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. You can’t write regularly and well. One should accept bad #writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.

—Jennifer Egan

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

—David Rakoff

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

—Annie Proulx

The Law of Lumina

 

--Signed copies are also available!

The Hourlings Podcast Project, S2E09 - Medicine in Fiction!

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week

If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area.

—David Bowie

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

—Leonard Cohen

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

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

—J.R.R. Tolkien

We all have time machines, don't we, those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward are dreams.

—H.G. Wells