Inspired Writing

"Good work doesn't happen with inspiration. It comes with
constant, often tedious and deliberate effort."
- William Hefferman

Inspiration is what makes the "constant, tedious, and deliberate effort" to write as easy as breathing, addicting as living, and pleasurable as... well, as pleasurable as whatever you enjoy the most. Inspired writing is no work at all.

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Something to Say

"The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everyone has a story to tell. Most tell it with email, instant messaging, cell. phones, chat rooms, social networking, or chewing lips. Writers say it with silence.

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Neither Man nor God

"Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write."
- James T. Farrell

Damn right! You're the boss. What you write is yours alone. Hide it. That way no one will ever know you existed.


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Celebrate Writing

Celebrate Writing
"Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing."
- Melinda Haynes

Remember the rules. Think about being published. Write for everyone and wait to have your big party. That's how you celebrate writing.


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Ultimate Fighting

"Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon."
-Robert Duvall

Challenging critics is like taking on a young Muhammad Ali. While he had muscle and moves long ago, critics have them today, and they never use gloves. There's no wonder ultimate fighting has grown in popularity! It's how writers face their critics.


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New Thing New Way

"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
- Richard Harding Davis

Say an old thing in a new way for your father, a new thing in an old way for your grandfather, and a new thing in a new way for ever.

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Write Now, Right Now

"Everything changes when you change."
-Jim Rohn

Everything changes when you write. Don't wait to start. Sure you'll be older and wiser when you finally begin, but your voice will be that of a child. Write now, right now.


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Once Upon a Time

"May I never grow too old to treasure 'once upon a time'."
- Anonymous

May I remain young enough to write it.


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Writing Survives

"Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."
- P.G. Wodehouse

Put a frog in a pan of cold water, turn on the heat, and watch what happens. When the temperature rises as slowly as success comes to a writer, the frog boils to death without feeling it happen.

Writers have the opposite problem; they do not feel cold. Encourage them to publish and watch what happens. When the temperature lowers as fast as rejection comes to writers, they freeze without feeling it happen.

While frogs boil and writers freeze, writing survives.


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Face of Writer's Block

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
- Sidney Sheldon

If God speaks to us through blank pages, then blank computer documents are His way of telling us to write. If not, they're Satan's way of scaring us with writer's block.


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