Philosophy Friday

GOOD VIEW















GOOD NEWS
A good friend talked me out of what might have been one hell of a writers block [Thanks, Rachel!] Unfortunately I didn't write a single word on the WIP before the block dropped on me like a ton of bricks because my editor for ASOM got fired and I have no idea what is going to happen at the moment. So why is this good news? It's not, really. I'm just holding tight to the whole closed door/opened window thing, determined to honor the work and finish the book.

GOOD ADVICE
"How do you work?" someone once asked Einstein. "I grope," he replied... As an image, groping has associations with unpleasant activities like stumbling around, feeling blindly with your fingers in the dark, or enduring a series of false starts and wrong turns. In other words, as an image it so perfectly captures the experience of writing... A professional writer's view of his or her work [should] include in it the reality that all artistic effort, in the final analysis, is groping toward something."
--Dennis Palumbo, Writing From the Inside Out