quote for 9-12-10

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

-- William Zinsser

Quote for 9-09-10

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

--Andre Gide

forgot to mention

I have a poem up today at Camroc Press Review

Quote for 9-08-10

Despite the literary fashion, you have to be attuned to your own ear, your own gifts.


—Richard Wilbur

The poem came back-- with the suggestion that I submit again BUT WITH SEVERAL WORKS. Ha.

Tweaked that story and sent it out. Hope to finish another work today. My goal is to get 50 different/new works out.

I'm at two.

done!

worked on the story. the end was giving me troubles and those logistical things but it's done. a complete, not-so-bad draft. yay.

Writing quote for 9-06-10

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.


--Nadine Gordimer

another poem

The second I've written in uhm three years. Got it out.

Yes, I know generally poems go out to magazines in groups but at this poetry-writing rate, I'd be in my mid-50's before I had that packet ready;-p

A new story

Almost. Had it in my head for awhile. Some logistics to work out but I should finish it tomorrow.
fingers crossed.

Writing quote for 8-2-10

Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do?
Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied.
Interviewer: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you?
Hemingway: Getting the words right.


--Ernest Hemingway
"The Art of Fiction," The Paris Review Interview, 1956