Revision is when you first get to recognize the distance between what you wanted to write, what you thought you were writing, and what you actually did write. That recognition often makes you want to throw up.
– Carolyn See
Author: bryon
haiku 451
loading kittens
for trip to shelter
mama cat watches
Quotable 333
The first rule of writing fiction: Make me care.
– Kurt Busiek
haiku 450
prairie dogs
graze on grass –
darkening skies
Quotable 332
Story problems are going to happen. If you never have story problems it means you’re not working hard enough to tell stories in an original, surprising, unexpected way.
– Ken Levine
haiku 449
city life –
one night a fat possum
tonight four raccoons
Quotable 331
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity and humanity.
– William Zinsser
haiku 448
you and I
connected
by syllables
Quotable 330
Art is a summoning of attention. To create it requires the highest directed focus, as does experiencing it.
– Sven Birkerts
haiku 447
white line at road’s edge –
dead possum lies
in its own blood