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In particular, if you are feeling the need for inspiration, there’s 365 Affirmations for the Writer. Here is a taste of what’s inside:
July
8
Failure
Any
man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he
applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually
make some kind of career for himself as writer.
― Ray Bradbury
July
9
Keep Going
Courage
is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t
practice any other virtue consistently.
― Maya Angelou
July
10
Don’t Stop
You
must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and
exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired
meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your
strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
― Giovanni Boccaccio, considered the Italian Chaucer, wrote the Decameron, linked stories
July
11
Keep Going
“Real
courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway
and see it through no matter what.”
―
Harper Lee, Atticus from To Kill a
Mockingbird
Rules
A
story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that
doesn’t turn something.
― John Gardner, from On Becoming a Novelist
July
13
Plot
When
in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
― Raymond Chandler, writer of a series of popular novels with the character Philip Marlowe as a private investigator, The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely
Create
a plot around a revolver that refuses to go off. When I was fifteen years old I
found a gun on the roof of the school when I climbed up a wall to retrieve a
tennis ball. I hid it away in a shoe box in the back of my closet.
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