Posts tagged passion
If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I’d still do it—for fun and for free.
The First Book: Go ahead, it won’t bite. Well… maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It’s pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it’s hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you’ll never reach bottom. It’s not like it’s the end of the world — just the world as you think you know it.
I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself ‘When did they live?’ I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don’t want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.
(Source: amandaonwriting, via the-masked-writer)
(Source: chaptersthree, via literary-hack)
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
Huffington Post/Writer's Relief's Writer Wednesday: "5 Ways To Overcome Writer's Guilt"
The writing life is tough enough. With the pressures of deadlines, always needing new work to submit, and the occasional writer’s block, the last thing a serious writer needs is to feel guilty about his or her craft. This guilt can stem from a variety of places, like having to cancel plans with friends in order to finish your new story, or from not making enough money to make all that work seem worthwhile.
But all hope is not lost! Writer’s Relief has come up with five practical ways to help minimize your guilt complex and maximize your writing potential.
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn’t identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you’re the one that bleeds.
Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
Don’t you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don’t even have to be true!
