I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series Happy December everybody! Yes, this post was meant to go out last week, before we left November, but sadly my household contracted the plague or some such nonsense and…
There’s so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn’t. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work. — Sheila Heti, author, Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? Sorry I’m a bit late…
Everything I love is problematic, … no media is perfect. … So what can we do? Love the things we love, but acknowledge room for improvement. — Delilah S. Dawson, Everything I Love is Problematic In November 2015, I read an amazing article by Delilah S. Dawson published on one of my favorite sites, The Mary Sue,…
The notion of a ‘gay literature’ is a product of precisely these discourses of power. It was invented to cement the idea that real literature is straight. In this scenario, gay literature is a niche product that only those directly affected need to bother about. – Robert Gillett, co-editor of Queer in Europe: Contemporary Case Studies…
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult It’s almost the end of May already! And I still haven’t gotten very far with this year’s resolution to work more on my novel… But I do have a plan, and…
Wow, AtoZ 2018 is over?! I can’t believe how fast that month went by! Since this is a dragon artwork blog, I always have so many options to choose from for the letter D, so I’m happy to share this one today — this is Dragon Soul by Czech professional artist Benjamin, posting as ryky. He’s…
Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. — Brian Tracy I loved this quote when I found it, because I chose to read that as “goals in writing“ — i.e. writing goals — “are dreams with deadlines.” And this year I’m definitely putting myself on a clock to get more work done on my novel Finding Dragons! (Then my…
You will never ‘find‘ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. — Charles Bruxton, Notes of Thought I can’t believe I’ve been writing this blog for over two years now, and I really can’t believe that when I started, I was posting almost every single day! My posts were super short in the…
I think new writers are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you. — Asha Dornfest I’m technically done with my Finish Your Novel writing class, but I’m still not ready to post what I worked on (and what I’m still working on), so more on that later. …
I’m late! I must’ve dozed off like this adorable baby bookwyrm, sorry! These little sweethearts love their books, and were created by one of my favorite artists, Lindy Briggs at How Many Dragons?. They’re perfect for my post today, for the dozing and the books combined! Book lovers from all over the region gathered on Saturday,…
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