“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.” — William Faulkner
Month: September 2021
Friday Fictioneers 10-1-2021
The swell entering the church began to die down and yet I still hung on the edges. I didn’t need to sit down to feel the watershed of disbelief which overwhelmed me even now, months after she passed. We were going to grow old together, sitting on a beach somewhere or maybe in the mountains. Reading and writing. Playing.
Maybe she is waiting for me now.
Quote For The Day 9-29-2021
“Style means the right word. The rest matters little.” — Jules Renard
Quote For The Day 9-28-2021
“It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.” — C. J. Cherryh
JSW Prompt 9-27-2021
The JSW Challenge is open to anybody who wishes to participate. Using the writing prompt, write a flash fiction no longer than 500 words and post to your page. The Challenge starts on Monday and runs through Sunday each week. Please remember to link your story back to this post so everyone can read your entry.
Quote For The Day 9-27-2021
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.” — Augusten Burroughs
Quote For The Day 9-26-2021
“It doesn’t matter how many book ideas you have if you can’t finish writing your book.” — Joe Bunting
Quote For The Day 9-25-2021
“Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.” — Esther Freud
Response – JSW Prompt 9-20-2021
The JSW Challenge is open to anybody who wishes to participate. Using the writing prompt, write a flash fiction no longer than 500 words and post to your page. The Challenge starts on Monday and runs through Sunday each week. Please remember to link your story back to this post so everyone can read your entry.
“She said she’d do it, but it hasn’t happened yet.”
“Give her a chance.”
“How many chances does she need?”
“Things are messed up in her world right now.”
“So, let them be messed up. It shouldn’t affect me.”
“Talk about selfish.”
“Why shouldn’t I be selfish? Some of her characters get anything they want. Why not me?”
“”Because you aren’t them for one thing. And for another, you’re just a spacekeeper.”
“I am not!”
“Am!”
“Am not!”
“You only last through the first book because you aren’t the Big Bad.”
“I am so the Big Bad. I controlled everything about your life in the first book.”
“Maybe in the first, but then you’re dead and out of the picture.”
“I’m not dead. I’m just biding my time.”
“Until?”
“Until the time is right.”
“No, you are just the Little Bad in the first book. You are easy compared to what I have to deal with afterwards.”
“You are just saying that to be cruel.”
“I’m just saying it because it is the truth.”
Silence for a moment.
“Give her a break.”
“So not happening.”
“Selfish.”
“Idiot.”
“Loser.”
Antagonist rose and stormed away.
Protagonist just rolled his eyes and sighed.
Quote For The Day 9-24-2021
“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.” — Anton Chekhov
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