“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”-Ernest Hemingway
What does this mean to you?
Do you agree or disagree with Hemingway?
Why?
Discuss!
Ernest Hemingway Quote and a Few Follow-Up Questions
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Category Archives: Writing
July Round-Up: Ten Interesting Posts
- Off Topic Post-The Life of Maria Callas: an animated journey through her life, loves and art
- Because This Photo of Edna St. Vincent Millay Will Always Be Extraordinary…
- Daily Diversion #267: Historical Marker
- Birthday Books
- Daily Diversion #268: Birthday Kettle
- Daily Diversion #269: Empty Nest
- “You and your Nero Wolfe recipes!”
- Hey, Georgie! It’s Your Birthday!
- Writers in Art: Caricature of W. Somerset Maugham
- Artistic Interpretations of The Tempest: #7-‘Miranda’ by Frederick Goodall
June Round-Up: Eight Cool Posts
Music and Writing
Be warned. I’m about to ask you a common writing question, for no good reason save my curiosity.
Here it is…
Do you listen to music when you write?
18th century house concert. Unknown artist.
If you answered no: Why don’t you listen to music when you write?
If you answered yes: What type of music do you prefer to write to? Do you like it low? Slow? Loud? Fast? Some of the above? None of the above? Why?
My favourite music is loud and dissonant. I definitely don’t dial it back when I write. This allows me to tune out everything but the task at hand. This has been a habit since my high school days, only now I write stories and reviews instead of homework assignments.
What does your typical playlist look, and sound, like?
Click on the link for my Spotify playlist:
Six Quotes About Writing
“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”-Anaïs Nin
“Write hard and clear about what hurts”.-Ernest Hemingway
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”-Leonard Cohen
“He asked, “What makes a man a writer?” “Well,” I said, “it’s simple. You either get it down on paper, of jump off a bridge.”-Charles Bukowski
“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”-William Faulkner
“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”-Raymond Carver
John Steinbeck Quote
Quote
“Consequently I have never even wondered about the comparative standing of writers. I don’t understand that. Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product is turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn’t mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.”-John Steinbeck (Paris Review-The Art of Fiction No. 45)
John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45 [The Paris Review]
View from My Studio
This is the view from my writing studio:
Old Apartment House
It’s what I see when I look up from my desk, and has been for nearly two years.
Will I miss it when we move? I’ll know in a couple of months.
Kafka
“I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’–that wouldn’t be enough–but like a dead man.”-Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, 1923
Look What Just Arrived in the Mail…
My copies of Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling!
Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling. My story starts on page 97.
Christine Morgan is one busy lady: she also makes rad nut dinosaur skulls!
Check Out a Q&A I Did Over at Fossil Lake!
Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling comes out later this month. In the meantime, you can check out a Q&A I did over on the anthology’s official blog. It was fun!
If you’d like to know some world-shattering tidbits about yours truly, such as my favourite aquatic-themed entertainment*, then head on over to Fossil Lake. While you’re there, be sure to read the entertaining profiles of my fellow Refossileers.
Refossileer Spotlight, Day 11-Alicia Austen
*Do you think it is…?
A. Cavorting at the beach
Gloria Swanson and Phyllis Haver
B. Whatever this is
Marine animals, fish and otters on the beach overlooking a bay with sailing boat and mountain in the distance by Jan van Kessel the Elder
C. Gaudy Esther Williams musicals
Esther Williams
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