bsmall2> There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/21/ursula-le-guin-dogs-cats-dancers-beauty/
Evander L Fragoso"...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book." Rob Bignell
I'd so like to be a decently selling writer, not just a writer. 😭 Just keep writing, just keep writing...
Author Steaphan Kay“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit-detector [with an on-off switch.]” Ashley Hope Pérez's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's quote.
https://ashleyperez.com/2010/12/the-most-essential-gift-for-writers-hemingways-shit-detector/
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The Most Essential Gift for Writers: Hemingway's Shit-Detector - Ashley Hope Pérez
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit-detector.” –Ernest Hemingway Who could argue with Papa Hemingway’s advice? Actually, there are lots of good reasons to argue with him, starting with his suicide. After all, if you off yourself, you cannot continue to detect and eliminate the shit from your writing. You […]
“You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.” Cheryl Strayed
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“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” Stephen King
Stephen, I gave up Netflix, Vudu, Hulu, Showtime, Disney, and HBO...and I go to bed early every night so I can read. I hope you're proud of me.🥺
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"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." George Orwell
Your mileage may vary on Orwell's sentiment. For me, mostly true.
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