Monday morning inspiration
Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free. –…
Monday morning inspiration
Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire. Geoff Dyer The Guardian, Feb 2010
Monday morning inspiration
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. – Helen Dunmore The Guardian, Feb 2010
Monday morning inspiration
Be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. – Roddy Doyle The Guardian, Feb 2010
Monday morning inspiration
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening…
Monday morning inspiration
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Zen Proverb
Monday morning inspiration
“We all need some time to ourselves – just a few minutes a day to get reacquainted with the one who’s been there since the beginning.” – seen in Starbuck’s, Muswell Hill
Monday morning inspiration
“Let our imagination guide us – and never cease to follow it, for if we do, we grow up and the child inside us is no more.” – seen in Starbuck’s, Muswell Hill
Monday morning inspiration
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison