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Are you a Perfectionist? Perfectionism rarely works out for the carrier, and I've been a bona fide perfectionist way more than I've allowed myself to just live and let live. As freely as God's grace is given is about as hard as it's been for me to receive - but that's an exaggeration... because grace, even in its smallest form, is still much greater than my occasional inability to simply exhale & take it all.
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Happy Fall!
I love this season.. never liked it too hot or too cold so FALL and SPRING have always been my first loves. Yesterday, marked the start of warm apple cider and hot chocolate with whipped cream, baked ham, sweet potatoes, greens and cornbread, layers of warm clothing, scarves and high boots.. this is my kind of life, anything that suggests cozy living.. What relief is it to us that seasons change on their own.. no human effort required; that every 3 months or so the sky knows what to do with its rain, the wind, determines either to settle down or throw itself around, the air, is either packed with hot moisture or chill, and we... deal with it : ).. Whether you're a summer person or winter lover, it seems like we're all waiting for our preferred living conditions to arrive... we're all waiting for change to come... "A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing." - Eugene Ionesco
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen." - Willa Cather
"This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard." - Neil Gaiman
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."- Anais Nin
"Your writing is trying to tell you something. Just lend an ear."- Joanne Greenberg"All Writing Comes by the Grace of God." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."- Richard Bach
“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.” -William Thackeray
"You don’t have to say everything to say something."- Beth Moore
"I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged." - Erica Jong
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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down. - Julia Cameron
"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say." - Anais Nin
"Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait 2 years to know whether or not it was funny."- Alain de Botton
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly, every day.
- Unknown.
"I write to discover what I know..." - Flannery O' Connor
"A writer keeps surprising himself... he doesn't know what he is saying until he sees it on the page."
- Thomas Williams
"I am sometimes irritated by my own writing... I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within." - Gustave Flaubert
Writers aren’t people exactly.
Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.” - George Orwell
Writers are the heroes of our age... Writers tell all or close to it - so we all can be better. Writing is a form of care, a high honor, a responsibility... Writers are messengers. Thank God for them. #sheaWrites
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. ...Writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any. -Orson Scott Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. - Barbara KingsolverDo you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that? - Kurt Vonnegut HAHA - sorry that one sounds so sad, but it made me laugh.. oh well! ****************
“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”
- Lawrence Block, WD
"If it sounds like writing I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rythm of the narrative." - Elmore Leonard The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Playing small doesn't serve the world....
All your fun isn't worth a fail.
Is time like money, does it grow on trees?
Are you wasting yet another great commodity?
Your gifts and time, your heart -- opportunity.
Don't you pretend, when you and I know...
Yes, you and I know...
There's more, much more...
Wisdom will change your course.
Only courage will beg your try.
Try.
Yes...you must try.
You know, and I know, what you prefer...
You. Prefer. Peculiar.
Try... You must try.
Give yourself permission to fall.
Give yourself permission to soar.
Give your voice permission to speak.
Give your heart permission to roar.
Own. Embody...Live your truth.
Grow and Give...
There's more to you...
#SheaWrites
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