Quote-Hunting: How to Improve your Writing and your Life
Big claim. How on earth can capturing quotes in a notebook improve our lives? I’m guessing you’re a book lover as well as a wordsmith. Or an avid reader of other people’s blogs? If we use our skills as quote-hunters with integrity, we can sharpen our writing and invite presence, openness, connection, focus and inspiration into everything we do.
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Quotes
Are you working on a novel for NaNoWriMo at the moment? Having a creativity crisis? Or simply in need of a blogging boost? Are you hoping to collate your best blog posts into a published book some day? Here’s a book I’d recommend by Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void, a blogger who did just that.
I’m [...]
Photo by JB in Pacifica
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
There are different ways of feeling [...]
It takes courage to speak out, to challenge conformity and tradition; to go first and weather the attacks, ridicule and criticisms of others; to be different. It takes courage to be free, to claim our voice, to own our power, to let the world hear the music inside us. ~ Lance Secretan
I’ve had a great [...]
Desiderata is Latin for ’desired things’. I first heard this famous piece on the radio in the early seventies, read aloud as a spoken song. Back then, we all thought it had been found in Old St Paul’s Church, Baltimore, but we now know it was written by Max Ehrman. I bought the poster, framed it and hung it [...]
Big claim. How on earth can capturing quotes in a notebook improve our lives? I’m guessing you’re a book lover as well as a wordsmith. Or an avid reader of other people’s blogs? If we use our skills as quote-hunters with integrity, we can sharpen our writing and invite presence, openness, connection, focus and inspiration [...]
“Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs -
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress
Its music lest it should not find
An echo in another’s mind.” ~ Shelley
I came across a beautiful photo today and followed links until I found the photographer. I was delighted to discover she’s a fellow Scot whose [...]
