Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, first drafts, genre fiction, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?”
— Ray Bradbury
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on May 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quotes, Thoughts on March 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »
As usual, Tuesdays are not 100% fun here at Chez J but that’s fine. I still hope that your day is a good one.
Being in a bad mood is not a license to be unkind. Being sensitive is not an excuse for being abusive.
Respect is a social responsibility. Treating it as optional reveals a lack of concern for others.
A mark of character is maintaining civility when things don’t go your way.
— Adam Grant
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein
I found this line at a fun site that serves up quotes based on your mood: APLIFT. And given my lack of time today, it fits.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quotes, Thoughts on February 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
— Desmond Tutu
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, genre fiction, inspiration, Octavia Butler, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on February 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice. You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Fiction, genre fiction, quotes, success, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.”
— Herbert Swope, American editor and journalist
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. To “Why am I here?” To uselessness. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.
— Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), British novelist, playwright
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
— Joan Didion
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on October 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“It’s the people, in the end, isn’t it?” says Viktor. “It’s always the people. You can move halfway around the world to find your perfect life, move to Australia if you like, but it always comes down to the people you meet.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed
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J.R. Johnson 
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