“Creativity takes courage. It takes courage to bare your soul for the world. It’s like taking off your armor, although you know people have pointy sticks that they love to jab into soft flesh.” ~
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Today’s Quote ~ Be Who You’re Supposed to Be
“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” ~ Pablo Picasso
Writers’ Wisdom: The Source of Inspiration
Please get out of the habit of saying that you’ve got an idea for a short story. Art does not come from ideas. Art does not come from the mind. Art comes from the place where you dream. Art comes from your unconscious; it comes from the white-hot center of you. ~ Robert Olen Butler
Today’s Reflection: Your Gift
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”—Robert Bresson
Today’s Reflection: Keeping it Simple
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. ~ Charles Mingus
Writer’s Wisdom ~ George Orwell’s 1st of 4 Questions to Guide Writing
What am I trying to say? ~ George Orwell
Today’s Reflection ~ Happiness
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation. ~ Albert Camus
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Joy of Writing
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
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― P. G. Wodehouse
Today’s Reflection ~ Confidence
One day a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of. ~ J. D. Salinger
