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Writing is an affliction, a disease of the soul, a rewiring in the head, like Asperger’s or some other form of autism. Like masturbation, it’s an uncontrollable and compulsive urge. It’s an obsession, a need, a drive. It’s not fun, and rewarding, and entertaining. It’s like having a bad movie play in loop in your head, so that your thoughts are either obsessing on words, or obsessing that your words are crap. It’s tortuous and exhausting, and if you could expel it from your possessed soul like an unwanted demon and be happy and content on a salaried wage, most writers would probably, in theirRead More →

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I often feel sorry for people who don’t read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. ~ Scott Corbett ~Read More →

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New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain via Quotegarden.com (which no longer seems to exist). Which, I suppose, one may be.  But I prefer to stay positive.  I’m not failing–I just still have things to learn. In that vein, what do I want to learn this year? To write, in some fashion every day.  I mean every day, whether I feel like it or I’m tired or I’ve got kids running around.  Every day.  I have learned that I write best when I keepRead More →

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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say. –Truman Capote Thanks to Advice to Writers. (On Twitter – @AdviceToWriters.)Read More →

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Unknown: “Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.”Read More →

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I love writing.  I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~James MichenerRead More →

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Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very;” your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~Mark TwainRead More →

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Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie HarmonRead More →

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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 PlathRead More →

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs NinRead More →