Always Written

"Always Written"

"I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living." (Ray Bradbury)

Finally! A personal repository of writing prompts, writing inspiration, and favorites. For the love of writing, learning, and living in hope. -- Jac

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"Good writing… consists of trying to use ordinary words to achieve extraordinary results."

– James Michener, The World Is My Home (via writeworld)

24th
May

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"Keep a diary, but don’t just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end—as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It’s great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary."

– John Berendt (via martinaboone)

23rd
May

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“Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones. When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent. They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight. There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can’t unravel the thousand and first.”

"Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That’s the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse."

– Marianne Williamson

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

– Kahlil Gibran