Monthly Archives: June 2024

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”   E. L. Doctorow Here’s what Dinty W. Moore, author of The Mindful Writer, … Continue reading →

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless as ideas and splendid plans: That the moment … Continue reading →

From the Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: “When The Alchemist was first published twenty-five years ago in my native Brazil, no one noticed. A bookseller in the northeast corner of the country told … Continue reading →

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”  Bruce Lee There’s gold to be mined for all of us in this nugget of advice — today and every day. As writers, we all … Continue reading →

As we relax and restore ourselves, here is a lush and woodsy prose passage by Walt Whitman from one of his journals to delight us: “I write this memorandum in a wild scene of woods and hills, where we have … Continue reading →