“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.” – Iain Thomas
He Said – She Said
He Said – She Said: Walking Buddies
“Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread…”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
He Said – She Said
-Photo by Mary Bach
“…I don’t just wish you rain, Beloved – I wish you the beauty of storms…”
-John Geddes
He Said – She Said
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
― H.G. Wells
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
-Nelson Mandela
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” -Walter Cronkite
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. -Carl T. Rowan
He Said – She Said
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
-Groucho Marx
He Said – She Said
“You should never hesitate to trade your cow
for a handful of magic beans.”
―Tom Robbins
He Said – She Said
Photo by Mary Bach
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
-Antione de Saint-Exupéry
He Said – She Said
Photo by Mary Bach
“We cross from memory into imagination
with only vague awareness of change.”
-Simon Van Booy
NaNoWriMo
For those of you who don’t know what NaNoWriMo means (National Novel Writing Month) you don’t need to worry about any of this. Continue happily on with your sane lives. But for any of you out there who have accepted the challenge of writing a novel of 50,000 words in 30 days I have compiled some advice from well known authors to help (and by ‘help’ I mean, ‘not help at all and marginally harm by distracting’) you through your odyssey.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
― Stephen King
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
― Louis L’Amour
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
― W. Somerset Maugham
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
― Jack London
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
― Neil Gaiman
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
― Natalie Goldberg
Nothing’s a better cure for writer’s block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
― Don Roff
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
― William Faulkner
And finally:
Beware of advice—even this.
― Carl Sandburg
So, to those of you making the attempt I wish you all the best!
Changing
By Mary Bach
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