Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. Jack Kerouac
Tag: Creativity
Matthew Weiner’s Advice to Struggling Artists
"While being battered always hurts, an important survival mechanism I’ve acquired over the years is to both thrive on rejection and hold on to compliments. Rejection enrages me, but that 'I’ll show you!' feeling is an extremely powerful motivator. I’m at a point now where I’m afraid that if I lose it I’ll stop working. … Continue reading Matthew Weiner’s Advice to Struggling Artists
Writing Quote of the Day
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." Terry Pratchett
Quote of the Day
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." David Foster Wallace
QOTD
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Links for Writers: Fun Stuff to Read this Week
The Electric Typewriter // It appears that someone put a lot of time into this compilation of "articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers." A lot of good stuff to be found here. That Way We're All Writing Now by Clive Thompson // You'll see a lot tweets and status updates starting with the … Continue reading Links for Writers: Fun Stuff to Read this Week
Writing Quote of the Day
"I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking. It helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would … Continue reading Writing Quote of the Day
Writing Quote of the Day
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, … Continue reading Writing Quote of the Day
Good Reads of the Week
Here's a collection of great recently published reads. A writer and avid reader, Dallas Taylor noticed a bias in the books he was reading – they were all written by dudes. So he challenged himself to spend a year reading only books by women. His reflections on this experience are interesting and will make you … Continue reading Good Reads of the Week
Quote of the Day
"When you wake up, you have this gift of a blank brain. You could fill it with anything. But for most of us, we have this kind of panic. Instead of wondering what should I do, we wonder what did I miss. It’s almost like our unconsciousness is a kind of failure and we can’t believe we’ve … Continue reading Quote of the Day
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