Quote of the Day:

"Writing involves both the expression of an idea and the exploration of an idea — that is, when writing, you set out with an intention to say something, but as part of the attempt to capture an idea, the idea itself is altered through the thinking that happens as you consider your subject. Anyone who has written has experienced one of these mini-ephiphanies that is unique to the way humans write."

— John Warner, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (2025)

(He's talking about nonfiction, but this happens to me while writing fiction allll the time.)


Today's Writing:

Alibi sentence! Mondays, man.


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( Days 1-21 )

Day 22: badly_knitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme


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Quote of the Day:

(Another from Hemingway, doing it old-school.)

"Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day’s work."

-- Ernest Hemingway, in The Paris Review, (1954).


Today's Writing:

Er, too much reading & research & notes. Now, on to bullet points! ;-)


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( Days 1-16 )

Day 17: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 18: china_shop


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Quote of the Day:

I was thirteen when I really realized I wanted to write. One of the magical things that happened to me was I discovered my mother’s old typewriter in the garage, and I hauled it out and got all the dirt and dust out of it and found out it still worked. It seemed like such magic to me, that you could type stuff; it looked so neat and clean.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Interview in Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia (Anthology, 2010)


Today's Writing:

801 words on something very silly I'm writing about reading SF Fanzines of the 1930s-40s. It will probably be shorter when I'm done…


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( Days 1-14 )

Day 15: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 16: china_shop


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Quote of the Day:

"Are my stacks of books clutter? To some people, yes. Do they block the antique radio? Yes, they do indeed. Do they sometimes fall over, and are they hard to dust? Yes. But I find it a supreme pleasure to be surrounded by books that I may read today or tomorrow or soon or not for the rest of my life. Because they hold ideas in their crisp or crumpled pages, and because they are beautiful objects, and because they are mine and I know when I bought them and why. I like to look over my stacks and think about what to read. I see ideas to be contemplated, stories to take in with a bourbon in my hand and my dog by my side. I see torn covers, and spines faded by the sun, and underlined lines, and phrases jotted in the margins that years later I no longer understand. And when I see these things, I see myself, and the world I inhabit, more clearly."

— Susan Harlan, "In Praise of the Book Tower" on Lit Hub (2015)


Today's Writing:

A little over 600 words, the first third COMPLAINING, after that some that are actually usable. 8-)


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( Days 1-11 )

Day 12: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme

Day 13: china_shop


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