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| Stephen King: https://medium.com/publishous/12-lessons-on-writing-by-stephen-king-ec7bebcfd26e |
I feel behind on the blog, so I am in a hurry to catch up as it's days later, Saturday following this post date, which is Wednesday.
I was going to scour the Internet myself for pictures of my favorite writers writing, and then I found the site of 100 writers and ended up sharing many more from that page than I planned, and even with those I added after, this is an incomplete set. Still, there are many fine writers pictured here.
Following the writers is the next feature of the Year in Number, this one for the year 2003.
ANNE SEXTION: both next from -
https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1566-anne.html
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all below from -
https://writingcooperative.com/100-famous-authors-and-their-writing-spaces-8ee25c50c927
Arthur C. Clarke
“If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
Neil Gaiman
“A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.”
Agatha Christie
“You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will never write at all, so there has to be one delicious moment when you have thought of something, know just how you are going to write it, rush for a pencil, and start in exercise book buoyed up with exaltation. You then get into difficulties, don’t see your way out, and finally manage to accomplish more or less what you first meant to accomplish, though losing confidence all the time. Having finished it, you know it is absolutely rotten. A couple of months later you wonder if it may not be all right after all.”
Anne Frank
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Carl Jung
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Sandburg
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.”
Charles Bukowski
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
Charles Dickens
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
Edith Wharton
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Elmore Leonard
“1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose.”
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don’t go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. My most important rule is one that sums up the 10. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose.”
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don’t go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. My most important rule is one that sums up the 10. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”
Georges Simenon
“The fact that we are I don’t know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.”
Harlan Ellison
“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”
Ian Fleming
“Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.”
J. D. Salinger
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
James Baldwin
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.”
Nigella Lawson
“It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation.”
Philip Pullman
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
Ray Bradbury
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things…. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Sylvia Plath
“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.”
Virginia Woolf
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
William Faulkner
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
MARGARET ATWOOD
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| https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/margaret-atwood-has-nominated-the-12-women-who-are-shaping-our-future-lgv27c0b3 |
TONI MORRISON
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| https://www.pinterest.com/pin/41376890310735395/ |
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| http://paradisebackyard.blogspot.com/2012/01/kazuo-shinohara.html |
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| https://www.pinterest.com/pin/507780926731595286/ |
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| https://medium.com/swlh/valuable-writing-lessons-from-stephen-king-59caa793b936 |
THE YEAR IN NUMBER: 2003
https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/2003
United States - Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/2003.html
Popular Culture 2003
- The ABC's 20/20 airs the controversial Granada Television documentary Living with Michael Jackson
- Keiko the Orca made famous by the "Free Willy" movies, dies
- The Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) files copyright lawsuits against Internet users for trading songs online
- Apple launches Itunes which becomes a major success selling 10 million songs within 4 months of launch
- A white tiger attacks Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" leaving him partially paralyzed
- Michael Jackson is booked on suspicion of multiple counts of child molestation ( later acquitted )
- JK Rowling's fifth Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is released
Popular Films
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Finding Nemo
- The Matrix Reloaded
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Bruce Almighty
- The Last Samurai
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- The Matrix Revolutions
- X2: X-Men United
- Bad Boys II
- Lost in Translation
In 2003, we moved into Richland Woods.
Mom was doing a lot better. 2003 was one of her best years after recovering from the meningitis.
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| Mom and Dad 2003 |
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| the beach |
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| the Neahtawanta Inn on the water side |
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| where I spend most of my days sitting and writing |
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| the library and Lucia Loo |
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| I bring a lot of stuff. If I am going to stay two weeks, I need stuff. |
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| my room |
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| me on vacation |
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| Petey |
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2008.12 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1867 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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