Posted in Writing on Sep 14th, 2010 7 Comments »
I’ve faithfully paid the bills, keeping my internet home ready and waiting, just in case the blogging bug should bite again. And it is nibbling a bit… We’ll see what comes of it. Just wanted to post a bit of something, on this anniversary of–not, uh, posting anything. *sheepish grin*
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Nearly two weeks ago, I was tagged by Caroline from Standing in the Sunlight in a game of, uhh… let me count ‘em… Seventeen Questions! I’m breaking the official tagging-game “Rules” by not tagging any new friends (seeing as most of my friends have been tagged already), but the questions were just too much fun [...]
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Posted in Writing on Oct 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
Just when I begin to wonder, “What am I going to do for my next blog post?”, the problem is solved by my being caught in a game of blog-tag by Miss Mia from Aspiring Homemaker. The Rules of the game are as follows: Link to the person who tagged you. Post the rules on [...]
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Posted in Writing on Sep 5th, 2008 No Comments »
There’s a part near the beginning of C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra in which the narrator speaks of the terror which the word “haunted” inspires: “Haunted”…”haunting”…what a quality there is in that first syllable! Would not a child who had never heard the word before and did not know its meaning shudder at the mere sound [...]
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Posted in Books, Writing on May 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
Young Girl Writes on Paper with a Pencil The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. – Horace Greeley Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. – Horace We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. – H. [...]
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Posted in Books, Writing on May 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Reading in the Morning Light by Carl Holose There is creative reading as well as creative writing. – Emerson To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Burke How well he is read, to reason against reading! – Shakespeare Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives [...]
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Posted in Books, Writing on Aug 1st, 2007 6 Comments »
In looking through my many journals and spiral-bound notebooks, I find, here and there, scattered amidst the sporadic story ideas and sketches of “pretty girls”, a list of my “Favorite Books”. Why I wrote these lists, I don’t know. Nobody but I ever read them. But I just like making lists! And from what I’ve [...]
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Posted in Writing on Jul 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
The End of the Quest by Sir Frank Dicksee Sir Frank Dicksee is one of my favorite painters, and his work “The End of the Quest” is one of my favorite paintings. It truly is worth a thousand words, and more! The faces of the man and woman seem to hint at a long and [...]
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