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Advice from Albert Camus
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers, and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies […]
Read the rest of this entry »From an Editor’s Desk: Writing Suggestions
I’ve been purging my office and as I toss old receipts and rearrange books I’m finding scraps of paper with scrawls and tidbits on them. So I’m lassoing all these jottings. A single word on the back of an envelope says ‘waft’. Now, waft is in my vocabulary, and I’ve used it in writing, but […]
Read the rest of this entry »Words Matter
Writers need to understand the nuances of language, search out fresh expressions, and continually refresh their vocabularies. For me, language is one of the greatest joys of the writing life. It’s hardly surprising when last month Merriam-Webster declared pandemic as the word of the year. As if 2020 hadn’t already asked a lot of us. […]
Read the rest of this entry »A warning & some cheer from Lang Leav
There is one thing you should know about writing. It will inevitably lead you to terrible places, as you cannot write about something if you have not lived it. Though the most important thing to bear in mind is this: you are there as a tourist and must always remain one. There was a very […]
Read the rest of this entry »Words are Powerful
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought produces that which thousands, perhaps millions think”~ Lord Bryron
Read the rest of this entry »Give Sorrow Words II
The fog has lifted and a pale sky revealed, the tall firs that ring the neighborhood still. Looking out it seems as if the world is holding its breath. I’ve written here before about following Shakespeare’s advice in Macbeth to, “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’erfraught heart and bids […]
Read the rest of this entry »Routine, be it ever so humble…
There’s often gloom outside my windows as I sit here lately, punctuated with storms and downpours. Sun breaks do occur, but mostly I’m grateful for this infernal wet after last year’s droughts and too-close-for-comfort wildfires. And these smudgy skies are good for reflection and planning. Now that the holidays are over I’ve been shoring up […]
Read the rest of this entry »Write a new story in 2021
2020 was a cruel, exhausting, nightmarish, wrung-out, surreal shambles of a year. So much to bear, grieve, and confront, sometimes with heart-hammering fear. So many adjustments to make amid an onslaught of shocking death tolls and Biblical plagues including swarmclouds of locusts. In the West the wildfire damage and scars have brutally changed the landscape […]
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