Wisdom, Wellbeing and Writing for Conscious Creatives
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing,” said Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who was born on this day in 1907. In honour of her 110th birthday (though Frida preferred to state her birth year as 1910 — the start of the Mexican […]
“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us both to our own insights and to a higher and deeper level of […]
“[When] you’re right in the work, you lose your sense of time… You’re completely enraptured, You’re completely caught up in what you’re doing, and you’re sort of swayed by the possibilities you see in this work. If that becomes too powerful, then you get up, because the excitement is too great. You can’t continue to […]
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking […]
The artist is never defending art, but simply his own petty conception of art. Art is as deep and high and wide as the universe. #Art is as deep and high and wide as the universe. —Henry Miller Click To Tweet There is nothing but art, if you look at it properly. It is almost […]
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, […]
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, —the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.” ~ Pablo […]
“Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people’s dreams – their visions, really – we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: […]
“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvellous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in […]
“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: “Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was […]
“Whether found in the #character, the story world, or readers’ perspective or experience, the sense of change creates the sense of a #story… A reader’s desire to get answers can create another form of tension and conflict.” @JamiGold #writingtips
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“I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” ~ J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew #amreading #literaryfiction
autumn sunset —
shadows disappear
into themselves
~ @pauldavidmena // #Photography: ‘Autumn in #Brighton’ by @photosbydavid1 / http://photosbydavid.org #haiku #sixwords
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.” ~ #JoyceCarolOates #amreading
“Your initial goal for editing may be a clean, polished manuscript that’s ready for publication, but the real value lies in the substantial leaps you can make in honing your craft.” How to handle #editing and feedback on your novel @LisaPoisso #writinglife
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ancient starlight
only arriving
today
~ Building Sandcastles: A Book of Short Poems by C.X. Turner and James Welsh (@lover__poetic, @JamesWelsh35): https://a.co/d164bSC #vss365
#Photography: ‘Cadini di Misurina’ by Stefano Pellegrini #haiku
“Writing reminds me of who I really am. It gives voice to the whisper inside me in a loud world.” ~ Becky Hastings #amwriting #infj #writingcommunity
tide line ..
every step taken
taken back
~ Michele Root-Bernstein / #haiku originally published in @frogpondjournal // #Photography: ‘Moonset’ © by Stephen Penland, http://stephenpenland.com #ocean #vss365
“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 #amreading #amwriting #writinglife
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