Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original:
whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before)
you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis



there are no rules

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

nevertheless, what does it mean to put these words into more or less a
kind of order? what is order? & is the order in language inherent,
like a tree, or does it have to be designed, like a post office? or is
it maybe something in-between, like the sagrada familia?

where do the words begin? where do they end? what defines language as
beautiful and/or ugly? which words are powerful, which are passive?
which words create excitement / danger / surprise; which words just
make you want to go home and lie down?

when are there enough words, and when too few? how many words did you
use today? which words are you intending to use tomorrow? what are yr
words worth?

martin de porres

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Monday, August 3, 2009

"the pen is mightier than the sword. provided the pen is sharp and the sword is short" - Terry Pratchett

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Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Winston Churchill
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

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