2 posts tagged “writing”

Neil Gaiman says the best things:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I hope 2008 holds great things in store for you. I hope I can get at least one of the in-progress NaNovels finished. It would be very nice to start an agent search. Good luck for everyone!

Sometimes I am made breathless at the brilliancy of my own writing. I wrote this? How?

Then I hope that I'm not taken in my own trap of the ego.

One day I hope to be published, but there's such an uphill run before me that it makes Suicide Hill look like the bunny slopes.

My mother talked about 'destination unhappiness,' where we think, if I could only get there/do this/accomplish this I could be happy. And it's true, if I published a book, I would think I'd be ultimately happy. Hopefully not only because of the money I would receive. It would be because I'd finished a book. I'd stuck with something long enough to see it from vision to reality. And I could hold my own book in my hands.

I wish I could get this dragon out of my head, and onto paper. It's wonderful how a creation takes over from its creator, I just wish it would get on with it...

We all have a chance to murder/ we all feel the need for wonder/ we still want to be reminded/ that the pain is worth the thunder
(Oh My God, Jars of Clay)