Tag Archives: Inspiration

Three Day Quote Challenge-Day Two

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“What appeals to me most is an idea expressed by Eluard. He has a line about there being another world, but it’s in this one. And Raymond Queneau said the world is not what it seems–but it isn’t anything else, either. These two ideas are the bedrock of my approach. If a book is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.”-Edward Gorey (in The Lion and the Unicorn, Number I, 1978)

 I share this philosophy.

This quote was brought to you by the Three Day Quote Challenge.

I was  nominated by Sita Rasa. Thanks so much!

Here are the actual “rules” for the quote challenge:

– Post one quote for three days (they may be your words or from another source)

– Nominate three bloggers each day to participate

– Thank the blogger who nominated you

I’m following numbers one and three. As for two…well, if you’d like to participate (and you should, because it is fun) feel free to nominate yourself.

Three Day Quote Challenge-Day One

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Robert McAlmon Quote

Robert McAlmon Quote

This quote comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the sidebar. Creatively, it has been my guiding light for more than a decade. I think about it nearly every time I sit down to write.

Do you have any writing tenets? Please share yours in the comments section!

This quote by the fabulous, underrated Robert McAlmon has been brought to you by the Three Day Quote Challenge.

I was  nominated by Sita Rasa. Thanks so much!

Here are the actual “rules” for the quote challenge:

– Post one quote for three days (they may be your words or from another source)

– Nominate three bloggers each day to participate

– Thank the blogger who nominated you

I’m following numbers one and three. As for two…well, if you’d like to participate (and you should, because it is fun) feel free to nominate yourself.

Music and Writing

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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.

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:

Mae’s Writing Soundtrack

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“Usually I circle around an idea, coming at it from many angles. In the process it seems to me as valid to move from abstraction towards realism and back again as it is for a poet to move from Lyric to Villanelle and back. The process of work being the discovery of the idea. Sometimes an idea which has been inchoate is defined. Sometimes and idea is inchoate–a song or a poem can help to define it. Or hold it in focus.”-Judith Rothschild, 1976 (Judith Rothschild: An Artist’s Search by Jack Flam)

Six Quotes About Writing

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“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