I have a rosebush that my grandmother started from a twig she plucked from a bush at her mother’s home some sixty years ago. When we sold my grandmother’s home, I dug up that very same bush and hauled it eighteen hundred miles to plant at my home, where it has flourished. I keep starting new bushes [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘writing’
March 9, 2007
Writing is a Wholetime Job
Writing is a wholetime job; no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham
It isn’t a question of will you write today. It is a question of what you will write. A writer writes, because he cannot not do so, and keep his sanity.
I used to think [...]
February 28, 2007
There Are No Ugly Babies
Some people like me. Some people don’t. You can never get everyone to like you, so why knock yourself out trying? — Claudette Colbert, great American actress.
You wrote something. You conceived your baby and brought it forth with all of your talent, skill, and passion, and some undefinable magic that compels you to write. There [...]
