Archive for November, 2009

Writing Prompt – November 29, 2009

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]

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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes

Saturday, November 28th, 2009
young face

If you don’t like yourself, you can’t like other people…

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Writing Prompt – November 27, 2009

Friday, November 27th, 2009

QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]

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Be brave! Be yourself!

Friday, November 27th, 2009
leaving

[Following her.] Yes; you have the courage. There may be six months of pain, of disgrace even, but when you no longer bear his name, when you bear mine, all will be well. Margaret, my love, my wife that shall be some day – yes…

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A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself

Thursday, November 26th, 2009
fire eater

“Are you going to wear me down with your worries all your life? If he doesn’t, he won’t.”

Lee frowned and shook his head slowly. “If this thing flops, we’re in another mess. Without Seldon’s backing for what…”

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Writing Prompt – November 25, 2009

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]

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Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
stairs

Style for the writer, no less than colour for the painter, is a question not of technique but of vision: it is the revelation, which by direct and conscious methods would be impossible, of the qualitative difference, the uniqueness of…

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The most daunting ideas turn into the best books

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
dreamy night sky

…had assigned me to write about. The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it from the fiber of your own will. From somewhere, you get it. You begin.

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Writing Prompt – November 23, 2009

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]

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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Monday, November 23rd, 2009
piglet

Ira, when you skin a man, you have to let him recuperate and grow more hide – or he gets nervous. If you respect this simple rule, a real mark can be skinned over and over again, and it just keeps him healthy and productive. But…

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life’s not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
flower in front of tombstone

–the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms…

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Writing Prompt – November 21, 2009

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]

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