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  • Writers Who Don’t Publish Must Be Crazy, They Say

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    On Authors Who Don’t Publish They’re making a movie about J.D. Salinger – a man known for publishing The Catcher in the Rye, and then nothing else. Or, more excitingly, a man known for writing The Catcher In the Rye, a few short stories, and then reportedly a treasure-trove of unpublished works that could possibly…

  • Is Rebellion Necessary for True Art?

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    “Generally speaking, art is an expression of man’s need for an harmonious and complete life, that is to say, his need for those major benefits of which a society of classes has deprived him. That is why a protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of…

  • Creativity is the Residue of Time Wasted

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    Creativity is the residue of time wasted. – Albert Einstein* Sometimes time wasted is just time wasted. And sometimes time wasted ends up being creativity. Why is this? Well, creativity is a funny thing. You don’t always know where you’re going to end up when you start. You might find yourself in a lot of…

  • Haven’t You Heard of Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog?

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    Haven’t you heard of Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog? It is the world’s biggest bestseller, or it should be, if this old saying from the publishing industry was true. Apparently book about Lincoln, books about doctors, and books about dogs all sell extremely well (at least before the internet came along, and fell in love with cats…

  • The Pleasures of Not Writing

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    “The pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again” —John Updike. This quote grabbed me because it is something I’ve been struggling with a lot lately – I’ve managed to keep writing a fair amount, but each step is a momentous struggle of motivation.…

  • What, the English Language Changes? Literally?

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    First, a somewhat related note – check out my story ‘One House, Six Decades – Three Generations’ on the new CBC Hyperlocal site. The CBC, our venerable old Canadian broadcaster (for those of you who aren’t Canadian and didn’t know), wanted stories of change from Canadians across the country – change in people and places,…

  • The World Is Better On Coffee (But It Won’t Make You Write Better)

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    “Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.” – Honore de Balzac, On Modern Stimulants Coffee won’t make you write better, but it might make you feel better. A large cup of coffee every morning, laced with cream and sugar and carried with me in…

  • Argue Your Way to Knowledge!

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    “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.” – John Milton According to Milton: the desire to learn -> opinions -> knowledge. In order to arrive at knowing something, you have to make the…

  • I Wish I Could Write

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    I wish I could write well. What do you mean? you say to me. You’ve got a blog. Of course you can write. But I still wish I could write well. If you’ve been following my blog lately, you probably noticed I’ve been posting less. It’s not because I’ve run out of ideas. I always…

  • Just Do Something

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    “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.“ – The Fellowship of…