#60 A Slow Sunday Scroll ☕️
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#60 A Slow Sunday Scroll ☕️
Be kind to yourself. Give yourself room. There are years to go. Don’t pummel yourself with expectation. Go easy. Your material will eventually find its way to voice.
from Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Suzanne McConnell
Kojo added
This applies to life not just writing
- I know now I was grieving something , the death of an ambition. I started attending reading events at Green Apple Books, my local bookstore, because it was something I liked in grad school, and I had to get myself out of the house. Going to those events was (is) a way of traveling without moving; they have afforded me an incredibly valuable educati... See more
from What Writing (and you) Have Given Me by Alex Clemente P.
Alex Dobrenko and added
- When you’re feeling small, remind yourself this is the artist’s struggle and find comfort in Anna Quindlen’s words: Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbirdand A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, i... See more
from Check your Pulse #49 by Sari Azout
sari and added
- There’s also something to be said about collating and curating in the slow writing process—facts, knowledge, smells, descriptions, stories, passport stamps, headlines—until the collection becomes part of the transformation process. Through acute and critical attention, away from the drive of production, toward the singularity of studying a branch, ... See more
from A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing
linda and added
That’s when it hit me.
I knew my stories.
Suddenly, I was beating the blank page. The more life experiences I recalled, the more enriched and enlivened I became. It was as though I was just discovering the gifts hidden in my past. I’d never understood the importance of self-reflection. The truth is, life moves too quickly to fully appreciate or craft
... See morefrom Why You Should Start Living in the Past by Rick Lewis
Mike "Bagel" added
- Back when I was feeling a imless and lost I used to read and reread something Cheryl Strayed wrote about writing: The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering abou... See more
from pacing by Ava
sari and added
From experience, I knew what to do. Write. Write anything. Bad sentences, meaningless sentences, anything to get the mind fixed again to that sheet of paper and oblivious of the ‘real’ world. Write until the words begin to make sense, the cogs mesh, the wheels start to turn, the creaking movement quickens and becomes a smooth, oiled run, and then,
... See morefrom Stormy Petrel by Mary Stewart
Melissa Wiley added