Thursday, August 13, 2015
Yep! More Writing Wisdom! (I ♥ this stuff!)
I ♥ writing! I ♥ quotations! So I ♥♥♥ quotations about writing!
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Junot Diaz
It's never too late -- in fiction or in life -- to revise. Nancy Thayer
The sinister thing about writing is that it starts off seeming so easy and ends up being so hard. L. Rust Hills
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. Raymond Chandler
We write by the light of every story we have ever read. Richard Peck
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. Mark Twain
Draw your chair up to the edge of the precipice, and I'll tell you a story. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, August 10, 2015
Saints I Need -- Now!
Thanks to
my first grade teacher, Sister Celeste, and her dramatic stories about holy
people, I developed an early fascination with the saints. Once I could read
well enough, I devoured every saint book in our school library and dreamed of growing
up to be a martyr. Over the years, I looked to the saints for inspiration and
turned to them for help.
I still
do.
But
sometimes I find myself wishing for new saints…special saints…saints who fit
the life I'm living right now and the problems I wrestle with every day. I wrote about these saints-that-don't-exist-but-really-should on the Catholic365 site. You can read about Saint Peter the Podiatrist, Saint Kitkat Goodbar of Hershey, St. Tardia the Venerable Procrastinator, and all my other imaginary saints here.
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