March 31 has rolled around again and, while hardly recovered from my recent travels, it’s time to pick up the challenge for NaPoWriMo again. There are a few hours still to ponder any sidebar themes or parameters although there’s one … Continue reading →
It seems to me,” she continued, “that the more we live in a society in which we feel our problems — be they international problems of war and peace, racial problems, problems of drugs, problems of violence — to be literally beyond our ability to solve, the more reassuring it is to read a popular form of fiction which itself has a problem at the heart of it. One which the reader knows will be solved by the end of the book. — P.D. James Continue reading →
Where the writer and the reader collaborate to make the work of fiction is perhaps, above all, in the imagination. In the joint creation of the fictive world. — Ursula K. Le Guin Continue reading →
Every artist was first an amateur. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading →
While I was reading a bit this morning and duking it out with the cats for covers, I took these photos of Archie and Razzie. I found lots of stuff pointing to an observance of #artmatters today and a remembrance … Continue reading →
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but we are unable to say.
