“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”
writing
/ˈrʌɪtɪŋ/
noun
1. the activity or skill of writing.
“parents want schools to concentrate on reading, writing, and arithmetic”
2. the activity or occupation of composing text for publication.
“she made a decent living from writing”
Make Your Kid A Writer
“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do. Limit her TV-watching time and her internet-playing time and take away her cell phone. Give her a whole summer of lazy mornings and dreamy afternoons. Make sure she has a library card and a comfy corner where she can curl up with a book.
Give her a notebook and five bucks so she can pick out a great pen. Insist she spend time with the family. It’s even better if this time is spent in another state, a cabin in the woods, a cottage on the lake, far from her friends and people her own age. Give her some tedious chores to do. Make her mow the lawn, do the dishes by hand, paint the garage. Make her go on long walks with you and tell her you just want to listen to the sounds of the neighborhood.
Let her be lonely. Let her believe that no one in the world truly understands her. Give her the freedom to fall in love with the wrong person, to lose her heart, to have it smashed and abused and broken. Occasionally be too busy to listen, be distracted by other things, have your nose in a great book, be gone with your own friends. Let her have secrets”
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How to Be an Award-Winning Blogger
“Sometimes you have to pry open your chest with a rib spreader, and reach inside yourself, and tear out your heart, and throw it on your blog with a wet slap!”
“On Keeping a Notebook,”
“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
A letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, cross written to save paper, February 8-9, 1807
The Doctor’s Wife
Drawings on Manuscript by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
more at Russian Culture.
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Brian Eno Interview 1980
“Lyric writing is an embarrassing thing to do because there’s a kind of exposure in writing lyrics that is really more critical than any other kind of exposure I can think of.
Words have such distinct meanings that they pin you down in a sense. So to start writing lyrics is hard. To start writing lyrics when you don’t know quite what to say is even more difficult.
So I began inventing systems the intention of which was to foil the critic in me and to encourage the child in me. I tend to think that one’s mind is mediated by two characters: one is a critical one and the other is playful and childish one. And we’re inclined to let the critic have a bit too much sway in that balance.
And so quite a lot of the procedures I use are intended to catch him off guard for a little while so that the playful person can come out.”
“Many Of Horror” by Biffy Clyro (2010)
Simon Cowell put a key change on this and made it Number One.
Screw that.
Paul Greer 