Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time." —Annie Leibovitz, photographer


It's all better with friends.

Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order." —P.D. James


It's all better with friends.

Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

—30—    "A writer is someone who finishes." —Thomas Farber


                                Back to work.



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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page."—Eudora Welty



This is part of the magic of writing. One of the addictive parts. Agree?



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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to." —Octavia  Butler

As both a reader and a writer the world is there for the taking... and the making.

It's all better with friends.