Originally posted on irisgassenbauer:
When to Scotland, I came to admire the very beauty of tartan against a grey Scottish sky. Smell my dried seaweed, the water was calling. Smell my salty breath, the wind chimed in. I wandered off to see the sheep. Blackface sang a song about obstinacy and dandelion. Then the land…
Originally posted on Reowr:
We fought with daffodil swordsThat never stayed straightWith tips always drooped in defeat,But it never mattered when daffodils scatteredAnd littered the grass at our feet. All our hope we would place in a big red balloonAs we set it to sail for the sun,But though it deflated, our hope was inflatedBy…
Originally posted on Amaan Khan:
Toward the end of his life, my father began presenting many signs of senile dementia. For instance, several times a day, he would call out for Rita, plead with me for a chance to meet her–Rita, a woman who was not my deceased mother and whom I had no knowledge…
Originally posted on Dr. Manoj Kumar Bhambu:
· If you do any work…. yes any work with passion you will be a successful person not only in that work but in almost all walks of life. · Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. · Once we find out the purpose of…
Originally posted on James Harrington's Blog of Geek and Writing:
? This is more of a rant, so if you’re looking for advice, you can skip this post. Have you ever seen or read about a character that at some point in the story encounters an issue that he was neither the cause of…
Originally posted on Lonely Blue Boy:
If only you knew deeply and thoughtfully how people don’t think so much about what you do wrong, you wouldn’t be killing yourself for the pursuit of perfection but rather healing yourself for the pursuit of progress.
Originally posted on Cristian Mihai:
For any aspiring writer, a rejection letter, regardless of the provenience of said letter, is one of the most dreaded of objects. In this line of work getting rejected is considered a sort of literary murder – people are knowingly destroying something you’ve spent time on, and a lot of…
Originally posted on Deidra Alexander's Blog:
Everyone seems to be teaching some kind of class or writing some kind of how to book. Someone suggested I take an inventory of my skills and then create an empire around my greatest ability. I thought jeez I want an empire, surely I learned a thing or two…
Originally posted on Daniel Douglas' Blog:
Source: Scott Laumann TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY is the “non-fictional” account of Steinbeck’s road trip across America in 1960. (I put the word “non-fictional” in quotes because although Steinbeck portrayed his journey as a cut-and-dry retelling of actual events, much scrutiny has been put to its authenticity in recent years.)…
Originally posted on Longreads:
Cody Delistraty | Longreads | May 2017 | 8 minutes (2,228 words) ? Born in Zimbabwe on August 28, 1972, Paula Hawkins’ family moved to London when she was a teenager. Although writing fiction interested her in her younger years, her stories generally remained unfinished. After graduating from Keble College, Oxford,…
