When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.
Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.
So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!
We compliment weight loss, monitor our appetites, and shrink ourselves to fit some kind of standard. I wish we could all be the size we actually are. One size doesn't fit all because there are as many sizes as there are women. Let's look closer at the size of our hearts, the width of our souls, and the length of our spirits.
You are sublimely, exactly, how you need to be at this moment.
The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.
Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.
Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.