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:: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 ::

The urge. While all of nature prepares for the dormancy of winter, I've been getting the urge to resume a writing project I had more or less abandoned some 18 months ago. Over the weekend I revised the preface, introduction and first couple of chapters to a little allegory I call Awakening Samuel. I think there's a book in there -- I've felt it for a long time -- but while I was working on Hooked on the Net, I set this other project aside. But for the past several weeks the hankering to get back to writing has been all over me. I finally quit ignoring that urge and did a bit of writing this weekend.


Writing is a lot like exercise. If you don't exercise regularly, you get out of shape.


Several years ago I wrote down some of my favorite quotes about writing, and I take them out to look at from time to time. Here are a few of them:

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. -- Pliny the Elder


Writing is not a McDonald's hamburger. The cooking is slow, and in the beginning you are not sure whether a roast or a banquet or a lamb chop will be the result. -- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones


Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labours Lost," Act I, Scene II


How forcible are right words! -- Job 6:25

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