Wisdom, Wellbeing and Writing for Conscious Creatives
In the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, …even more than I was in Paris, where everything echoes and fades away differently because of the excessive noise that makes Things tremble. Here, where I am surrounded by an enormous landscape, which the winds move across as they […]
Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines) Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, ‘The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.’ The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me […]
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think […]
“[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 […]
Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, […]
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron […]
who knows if the moon’s a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky–filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty peoplethan houses and steeples and clouds: go […]
So You Want To Be A Writer ~ Charles Bukowski if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen […]
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is […]
“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no water; without water, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, you cannot make paper. So the cloud is in here. The existence of this page is dependent on the […]
“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
How to handle editing and feedback on your novel - Lisa Poisso
Make the most of a professional edit with a mindset and process that exploit feedback and criticism to take your novel to the next level.
buff.ly
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
“If you read over a paragraph and it seems unclear, read it out aloud… Shorter sentences and paragraphs are useful for maintaining good clarity and pace, while varying length adds interesting rhythm.” Clarity: 7 #WritingTips for Lucid Prose @NowNovel
Clarity in Writing: 7 Musts for Lucid Prose | Now Novel
Clarity in writing is crucial for your reader's enjoyment and understanding. Keep it clear while learning about dangling modifiers and more.
buff.ly
rural backroads
every direction
a sea of stars
~ Rob Cairns, @robbiepoet / 'Horizon' by Rob Cairns // Asef Azi, @asef_azi / http://asefazi.eth.co (IG: @asefazi.photo) #haiku #mpy #vss365
“Persist! Respect that you have something worth saying and don't give up. There are only so many stories to be told, but every single person brings something unique to their telling.” ~ Nina Sadowsky #amwriting #writingcommunity
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