First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
– Octavia Butler
Author: bryon
haiku 454
conversation –
streetlights meld
with dawn
Quotable 336
One reason I write is to examine other ways the world could be.
– Kate Elliott
Quotable 335
The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
– Bernard Malamud
haiku 452
after the wedding
raccoon slaughter
on the highway
Quotable 334
Revision is when you first get to recognize the distance between what you wanted to write, what you thought you were writing, and what you actually did write. That recognition often makes you want to throw up.
– Carolyn See
haiku 451
loading kittens
for trip to shelter
mama cat watches
Quotable 333
The first rule of writing fiction: Make me care.
– Kurt Busiek
haiku 450
prairie dogs
graze on grass –
darkening skies