Writing Prompt: In your own time…

I suddenly find I have a lot of time on my hands. I'm on "gardening leave" from my company for a few months and while I miss the buzz of the office, I'm realising I have some time to get back to writing and learning things I've been too busy this past year to take...

Quote for the day

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.  ~Anaïs Nin

Quote for the day

 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I...

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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. -Joan Didion

Today’s Poem: Pablo Neruda – Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, Or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, In secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in Itself the light...

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Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words – the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered. - J. Michael Straczynski

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If you believe everything you read, better not read... - Japanese Proverb

Writing Prompt: Anything at all

I often ask myself, if I could do anything at all, if bills and time were not a factor, what would I do? The answer hasn't varied too much over the years. So, how would I spend every waking moment of every day? I'd shut myself up in my office with a coffee maker, my...

Writing Prompt: The Book List

As you may have noticed through some of the other pages on the site, I've started a new book list for 2009. As I go through them, I'm writing down what I finish and adding a review. So far, I've read "Candide" by Voltaire (for the 20th time), "Fire in the Blood" by Irene Nemirovsky...

Closing off the book list 2008

Well, I gave it a go and here is how far I got in 2008: 1. A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb 2. The Road to Avalon - Joan Wolf 3. Rope Burns - F.X. Toole 4. We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver 5. A Confederacy of Dunces - John...