Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing…
Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. 4. Never use an adverb to modify the…
Don’t freeze up…
“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.” Thomas Wolfe – You Can’t Go Home Again
This storm…
Murakami is the man… “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play…
Existence…
“There are only two worlds – your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not…
Aristotle told us this…
“All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we…
Wind…
Hmm, I went on a bike ride. And it was very windy. And I haven’t been on a bike in an age. But it was fun. Even the wind. “On a day when the wind is…
Sit quietly…
“If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to…
Boom…
As you share and comment and play your role in the viral game, remember… “Much of our media now are so image-rich and content-poor that they just serve to capture the eye, manipulate our emotions,…
According to convention…
“According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real…
Unusual experiment…
I haven’t been drinking, haven’t been in a bar, haven’t been at the Dingo, Dome nor Select. Haven’t seen anybody. Not going to see anybody. Trying unusual experiment of a writer writing. That will also…
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