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50-Word Stories #132
‘Don’t do it, dear! Please don’t!’ ‘I shall!’ ‘You will kill us both!’ ‘I cannot take the pain anymore!’ ‘Please…’ he begged. ‘Farewell.’ She jumped into the sea. (She had cancer.) A mighty splash...
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Lady Internet – The Modern Writer’s Greatest Distraction?
Don’t you write more and better when you are not in the company of Lady Internet? I certainly do. And I also feel calmer, more peaceful, less distracted. After much struggling, I’ve managed to instil...
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50-Word Stories #133
She disliked banks, so she secretly kept all her savings in her mattress. After spending a weekend in Tirol, she returned home only to find her mattress gone, and in its place, a new one, red and...
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How To Tame Your Greatest Enemy, That Invisible Monster That Devours You...
Time is an invisible monster, sometimes hasty, sometimes ponderous, yet always eager to devour our opportunities, hopes, and dreams. When we work or do unpleasant things, time slumps on the ground and...
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The Best Writing Advice You'll Ever Receive
Reblogged from boy with a hat: Draft, rewrite, and edit, Then rewrite and rewrite, And edit! Toil, writer, toil! Read more… 103 more words Curious reader of my blog, this week I’ll be shamelessly...
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The Perks of Being a Writer
Reblogged from boy with a hat: Being a writer, or trying to be one, can be frustrating at times. Usually it’s because of the writing itself – either it’s not good enough or simply not the way you’d...
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The Urge to Write
Reblogged from boy with a hat: Do you often feel the urge to write but don't know what to write about? Read more… 203 more words Curious reader of my blog, this week I’ll be shamelessly republishing...
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Writer’s Block
Reblogged from boy with a hat: You want to write but don’t know what to write next. You sigh and hang your head and begin to have doubts about your vocation. All of us who are trying to make friends...
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Writing Is Enlightenment
Reblogged from boy with a hat: I don’t always know what I want to write when I begin to type, but as I write, I discover meaning on the page - stories and ideas. And these shape my beliefs and...
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10 Writing Tips From Ernest Hemingway, God Bless Him
Want some advice from one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, a man who almost got blown to bits during WWI, hunted lions for sport, survived two consecutive plane crashes, had four...
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50-Word Stories #134
Millie sketched an assassin and equipped him with a dagger and a hat. After coloring him, she forsook her studio and visited her kitchen, where she ate a Mars bar. Later, she returned to her studio...
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The Best Intellectual Training For a Writer According to Ernest Hemingway
INTERVIEWER What would you consider the best intellectual training for the would-be writer? HEMINGWAY Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly...
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50-Word Stories #137
‘Hello, Mrs. Smith?’ ‘Yes?’ ‘This is Doctor Malone. Your husband does not have terminal cancer. Our lab messed up some tests. Tried to call him but he did not answer.’ She burst into tears. ‘There,...
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Probably Dying
I have cancer symptoms. I suspect Hodgkin’s lymphoma is insidiously destroying my lymph nodes. If not that, it could be oral cancer. My left tonsil is twice the size of her sister. Have been unwell...
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Weekly Writing Challenge: Fifty
Can you tell a story in just fifty words? PS: Alas, if I knew my mug would become so large I would have not reblogged this!Filed under: Reblog, Uncategorized Tagged: 50-Word Story, Boy with a Hat,...
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50-Word Stories #138
The little boy sneaked into the orchard and scrambled up the tall cherry tree. The branches poked him in the ribs. The wind buffeted him. Up he climbed, undaunted, toward the ripest cherries. Snap! The...
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The Right Words
I want to write to you, But the right words won’t come to me. It’s a restlessness inside, A burning without smoke, A flood uphill, A strife against the void, This urge to write to you. But words, the...
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10 Great Quotes About Writing From Jorge Luis Borges You Should Read Right Now
1 “A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more...
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Dear Paper
Dear paper, I have come to you again Like the faithful come to church, Or the drunkard to the tavern, Or the lover to his naked lover on the bed. I come to you rejoicing, I come to you crying, I come...
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7 Writing Tips For Young Writers From Famous Authors
1 “If I had to give a young writer some advice I would say to write about something that has happened to him.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2 “I believe in the great importance of nostalgia for the writer....
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