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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
