WORDS OF WISDOM

Whatever comes to your mind, write about it. It may be a seed that will germinate into a story.

HONOR OUR VETERANS

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when its done in handwriting. 

~Nelson DeMille

OUTLINES

I'm still writing a lot of outlines. Don't know how many I've written. The theme is people at rock bottom. Rock bottom is different for everybody. It can be physical, mental, spiritual, or a combination of all three. 

FAVORITE AUTHORS AND POETS

Edgar Allan Poe

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Herman Melville

Jack Kerouac

Mary Oliver

WORDS OF WISDOM

 If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

~Tennessee Williams, Dramatist (1911-1983)

FAMOUS WRITERS FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.

David Aldridge

Daniel Epstein

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Diane Houston

Kathleen Norris

Norah O'Donnell

Richard Peabody

Henry Rollins

Douglas Wallop (1920-1985)

HONORING ALL MOMS

 

OBSCURE POET-THE ARCHPOET

THE ARCHPOET   (1130-1165) 

Anonymous 12th century poet

Born of nobility. Had a classical education.

Real identity has never been found

Author of ten medieval Latin poems 

Wrote Goliardic and satirical Latin poetry

"HIS CONFESSIONS" his most notable work

First Two Stanzas of "His Confessions."     (has 17 Stanzas)

Seething over inwardly

With fierce indignation, 

In my bitterness of soul,

Hear my declaration,

I am of one element,

Levity my matter,

Like enough a withered leaf, For the winds to scatter.

Since it is the property

Of the sapient

To sit firm upon a rock

It is evident

That I am a fool, since I

Am a flowing river

Never under the same sky,

Transient forever.

FAMOUS WRITERS FROM WYOMING

John Perry Barlow

C. J. Box

Lynne Cheney

George Clayton Johnson

Lou Kilzer

Laurie Kutchins

Patricia Marie MacLachlan

Kyle Mills

Karen Schutte

Mark Spragg

WORDS OF WISDOM

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

~Kazuo Ishiguro

FAMOUS WRITERS FROM WISCONSIN

Lois Ehlert (1934-2021)

Kevin Henkes 

Michael Perry

Kristen Radtke

John Ridley Jr.

Alice Sebold

Mona Simpson

Thomas R. Smith

Peter Straub (1943-2022)

WORDS OF WISDOM

 Always be a poet, even in prose.

~ Charles Baudelaire, Poet (1821-1867)

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