Comments on: When do you find yourself at peace with your words?

By: Jamie Grove

Jamie Grove — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:45:57 +0000

@Tom Thanks! That’s one of the darlings that I kept in.

@Elizabeth With 2 young kids, 8PM is like 1AM!

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My Festivus Airing of Grievances, to myself « writer’s flow — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:09:40 +0000

[...] the words ever see paper. This may explain why I wept when I read this beautiful passage from hownottowrite: As I’ve grown older, I’ve trained myself to spend too much time thinking about the [...]

By: Elizabeth Stark

Elizabeth Stark — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:07:09 +0000

It’s funny–I just wrote a post about getting started and how hard it can be sometimes. But there is something about late at night . . . Even now, as an adult who, theoretically, can go to bed whenever I want (even if I have to get up at 5:30 a.m. with my baby boys), I find I get a second wind after the boys go to sleep. Okay, this may not technically be the middle of the night; it may actually be 8 p.m. . . . but anyway, it’s a magic time. But the key (as NaNoWriMo teaches us) is to sit down and force the words to come, and then they always will.

Elizabeth Stark´s last blog post..The Fine Art and Grunt Work of Inspiration Or, Thirty Shots at Creative Inspiration, Part Two of Three

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:30:46 +0000

"The question of origin nags me like the sound of a sleeping child who coughs in a unfamiliar way." Just wanted to say I loved that line! Tom´s last blog post..On Winning NaNoWriMo, (Not) Finishing, and The Artist’s Way

By: Jamie Grove

Jamie Grove — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:06:54 +0000

@Deb Nothing wrong with being first!

I can’t say I’ve always loved sharing those early memories, but as I get older (and my kids grow up) I look back and find a few nuggets worth polishing. You may never be able to answer those questions to your liking, but perhaps it’s ok not to try. Don’t fight it, just allow it to pass through and move on to the next thing.

Or don’t… and use it to fuel a literary bestseller.

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:37:01 +0000

First a disclaimer: I really tried not to be first but nobody has spoken up and I’m bursting at the seams.

Jamie, this brought up so many memories. I think I will have to write my own segment. I was coveting your brass lamp though since my late night reading (not writing so much) was done by the light given off by an open flame gas stove in the bedroom I shared with my sister for six years. Those were hard years I have since learned did not need to be so hard.

I love the line: “Most are dreaming; one is reading.”
And it makes me wonder now if any of the others were dreaming but there is no way to answer the question anymore.

I’m glad I made a point of saving the booklets my kids made even though they are still quite mortified by them. They’ll want them someday I’m quite sure. Okay I’m off to have a good cry.