WORDS OF WISDOM

 

MORNING IS FILLED WITH IDEAS

Though I am a night owl, many of my story ideas 💡 come when I wake up in the morning. The ideas are in my head though I may not be all there. I grab a pen and pad and write them down. 

This is so important to me. Just recently I have an idea for a poem but I neglected to write ✍ it. Couldn't remember it. Another idea lost. Ever again!

WORDS OF WISDOM

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

~Natalie Goldberg

NEW WORD

OPSIMATH  noun

A person who begins to learn or study only late in life.

ROADS LESS TRAVELED

 A writer has to be willing to go places he//she has never been. When I first wrote poetry, it was a place where I had limited experience. Since then I have written over three hundred poems.

I also enjoy writing horror stories. Edgar Allan Poe was an inspiration, having read his stories. In some of them, I felt myself as one of the protagonists. I have written a few horror stories. Psychological horror is my favorite form.

NEW WORD

ARCHETYPE   noun

1. A very typical example of a certain person or thing.

2. (In Jungian psychology) A primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.

SILENCE CAN BE GOLDEN

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

~Mark Haddon

SEVEN WRITERS AND ARTISTS WHO DEFIED THE STATUS QUO

Charles Bukowski

George Carlin

Joan Didion

Anais Nin

Sylvia Plath

Richard Pryor

Hunter S. Thompson

I'm sure there are many others.

EXPERIENCE

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

It's good to know how to read, but it 's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

~Mike Tyson

THORNS AND DREAMS

 

HORROR STORIES

 

This the third time I'm reading reading these stories. All forms of writing requires imagination, horror more so, in my view. There is fear, guilt, doubt, mystery, and the element of surprise. 

LEARNING NEW WORDS

I am learning new words as I read. This is one of my writing goals. Besides learning them, I will be using some in my writings. Many of these words  have never seen before. The English language is vast. 

LOST AND FOUND

 

CAN'T LOCK UP THE MIND

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you may gain easily what others have labored hard for.

~Socrates, Philosopher (469 BC-399 BC)

WRITERS/POETS BORN IN JANUARY

Isaac Asimov

Simone de Beauvoir

Anne Bronte

Edmund Burkee

Robert Burns

Anton Chekhov

Mahasweta Devi

Mihal Eminescu

Jack London

A. A. Milne

Haruki Murakami

Edgar Allan Poe

Julia Quinn

J. D. Salinger

J. R. R. Tolkien

Virginia Woolf

WRITING GOALS

I set goals rather than make resolutions. I put them down on paper, them select a time period to complete it. If the goal is unrealistic, I will change it or pick out a new one. 

Two of my writing goals are to publish a chapbook of poetry and learn new words. I will also use some of those words when I write. The latter goal is a continuation of what I have been doing.

NEW YEAR WISH