Faith's diary and creative corner (fapj): Looking for you!

Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Looking for you!

If you are an illustrator of children's books and would be interested in taking Hugo on, I'd love to hear from you!

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Thoughts are things

Good advice

I came across the comment below and I think it's the nearest I've come to what writing is all about. I love writing, especially novels and poems. I write for myself but also because I've nothing else much to leave behind. I want to write books and poems for my grandson, even if he never wants to read them. That's going to be my next task, I think, but I'm writing a novel at the moment. The heritage thing also applies to some, but not all of my paintings. Anything you create with love and passion is something to leave behind - evidence of energy and imagination that live on!

Here's what Steven James writes in his "Story Trumps Structure":

"To uncover the plot of your story, don't ask what should happen, but what could go wrong. To uncover the meaning of your story, don't ask what the theme is, but rather, what is discovered. Characters making choices to resolve tension - that's your plot, If your protagonist has no goal, makes no choices, has no struggle, you have no plot."

Comment: I find that this quote applies to life, really, but definitely to the fictional world writers create.

More useful quotes

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.

(Henry van Dyke, poet 1852-1933)

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"Would you mind passing the seaweed?"
(James Bond - You only live twice)

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"It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within-not without." (Poirot - Agatha Christie).

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"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same." (Carlos Castaneda, mystic and author 1925-1998)

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"Will there also be singing?

Yes there will also be singing,

About the dark times." (Bertold Brecht)

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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

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