I want a page full of language, but what I’ve got is a blank wall.
Put in the time anyway.
Stare at the wall.
and remember that Bukowski says ‘writing about writer’s block is better than not writing’
Writing, I am told, is about bum-in-seat time. I beleive that. Hence this post.
Now back to that damn wall.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
~ Albert Camus
She’s mad but she’s magic
There’s no lie in her fire
~Charles Bukowski
Nothing signifies a sex work zone like people outdoors in underpants and fur coats.
Now there’s a sentence you don’t hear every day. Maybe I’ll steal this line. Link to Stoya’s site is NSFW (duh).
Theodore Roosevelt is credited with saying “comparison is the thief of joy“. I think this is true.
Why?
Comparison . . .
I think the worst thing about comparison is that we– most of us, anyway– are trained to do it to ourselves. No one needs to tell me I suck compared to the writer who lives just up the road from me.*** I am busy telling myself that. *sigh*
** I’m not being redundant here. “Envy” is the emotion we experience when we covet the possessions of another. “Jealousy” is the emotion we experience when we think a relationship we value is threatened. I notice that people tend to use the words interchangeably. IMO, they should not. 😉
*** Steven Galloway, who wrote the beautiful Cellist of Sarajevo and many other things
Something to think about for character arcs . . .
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future”
~ Oscar Wilde
“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”
― Neil Gaiman
“The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound.” ~ Iris Johansen
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.” – Alice Walker
Chloe Cocking 
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