At the end of the year, everyone's counting something... businesspersons their profits, sportsmen their trophies, photographers their photos, musicians their songs, painters their paintings, and so on. Us literary persons must count the books we've read (for alas, counting the ones we wrote wouldn't take too long). This year I haven’t read that many paperbacks, … Continue reading How Many Books Have You Read This Year?
Writing is the activity I most enjoy doing (I don’t have a girlfriend at present), and yet, though I enthusiastically await every opportunity to write, hoping to create literary compositions, when I am faced with the blank paper I procrastinate. I do a thousand menial tasks to ‘prepare myself for writing.’ And by the time … Continue reading Fear of Writing
Plots, settings, and even characters fade from our memory in time, but endings can remain with us forever, if they are unforgettable... (In no particular order.) 1. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better … Continue reading 10 Powerful Closing Lines
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