WordPress Writing Quotes

I’ve loved how when you post on WordPress now, you get this fun or thought provoking quote about writing on the side.  (Note for people posting… you don’t see the quote if you schedule your posts. Only if you actually post right when you finish typing)  So, I’ve been ‘collecting’ them over the past couple months.  Recently they have repeated themselves, but I’ve collected a nice amount. So, enjoy.  Oh, and clearly I’m not the only one who has enjoyed the quotes.  Just check out the related articles below.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.   ~ Anne Rice

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.   ~ Benjamin Disraeli

A metaphor is like a simile.   ~ Author Unknown

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.   ~ Carol Burnett

I am a drinker with writing problems.   ~ Brendan Behan

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.   ~ Phyllis Theroux

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.   ~ W. Somerset Maugham

 I do not like to write – I like to have written.   ~ Gloria Steinem

Easy reading is damn hard writing.  ~ Nathanial Hawthorne

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.      ~ Anais Nin

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.  ~Jules Renard

I do not like to write – I like to have written.  ~ Gloria Steinem

The desire to write grows with writing.  ~ Desiderius Erasmus

Signing off

~Kate

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A Fall List

 

Blackberries

Apples

Acorns

Wood Smoke

Wildfire Smoke

Pipe Smoke

Hazy Sun

Lazy Sun

Burning Sun

Sweet Grass

Spicy Pine

Colored Trees

Pumpkin

Cinnamon

Spice

Mums

Asters

Sunflowers

 

Okay, this is probably really terrible.  It’s a list poem, horrible in it’s single wordness, but I didn’t have time to tackle the actual late summer/autumn post I wanted to do. I hope to tackle it tomorrow.  So, if you are into list poems, enjoy…..

Signing off

~Kate

Word Cloud

I just found this new site that takes text and formulates it into a word cloud.  So I did it for my blog here.  It was interesting to see the words that it chose and how it lined them up, what ones to make in bold, and what words became larger than others.

A fun experiment to see my progress and I would recommend it to others for a bit of fun, and to add some interest to a blog.  Or forum.  Enjoy!

Wordle

 

Signing off

~Kate

Word Cache

Free your life with words...

I read a book called Poemcrazy by Susan G. Wooldridge, and one thing that struck me was Susan’s direction to collect words.  Her idea was to use them for poetry, but I’ve gone and added word collecting to my novel-writing.  I don’t keep any formal lists, though I really ought to.  I’ll run across a word I like, forget to write it down, and then it’s gone. 

However, there are certain words that I have stuck in my head. Not sure how I will use them, but the lyrical poetry of just saying them is kind of magical.

• Plotting – yeah, still not sure why this word is cool, but I love it.
• Passion – you can never have too much of that
• Flirting – how the ‘fl’ rolls off your tongue, then the implication of the word
• Charming – I just like this word. Prince Charming, he’s charming, it was charming…. Yeah, I use it a lot.
• Smitten – not a word used much, but well, fun.
• Cheshire – a word I love for the Cheshire Cat, plus I have a friend who has a smile like that.
• Shimmering – brings a lot of thoughts to my mind.
• Magical – I seem to use this word a lot. Don’t ask me why.
• Pounding -  Pounding heart, pounding thunder, the drums pounded. A very forceful word that has a wealth of meaning.
• Thundering – Kind of like Pounding.
• Etherial – It just sounds light and airy.
• Twilight – not from the book, but I’ve always loved this word.
• Lingering – Lingering twilight, lingering look, a lingering kiss. Try and tell me that that word isn’t sensual.

 

And the reason for this post is because of an ABC Castle promo from this summer about Castle repeats.  You can see the vid here.  I highly recommend it because well, if you like Castle like me, then you will just enjoy this. But all the fun words is very inspiring.

So does anyone else collect words?  Do you find you hear a word and just have to steal it for yourself?  I do it. I also do it with names.

Signing off

~Kate

Words

Words,  words, words, I’m so sick of words, I get words all day through, first from him now from you, is that all you blighters can do?

Those lyrics are from My Fair Lady.   And honestly it really has nothing to do with this post other than the subject of words.  I would have never thought a writer could be afraid of a book, but I can honestly say, some books scare me.  Not in the sense that I get scared reading them, but that they are so big and deep, that I don’t even want to crack them open to try them. 

Someone recommended that I read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.  So I checked it out from the library not knowing anything about it.  And I was very afraid.  That book is huge, and well the subject sounds downright boring.  I know it is a ‘classic’, but sometimes that means it’s even more scary.  I’m not afraid of big books.  Heck, I check out large books all the time.  Thick books, big books, books with little print.  And I will read them, or most of them, sometimes only part, but I do open them up.  I’m afraid to say that I am going to return it to the library.   I suppose it is being a coward, but honestly, does it matter in the scope of things if I avoid a book?  I don’t think so.  So it’s not my cup of tea.  It’s probably not other people’s as well.           

But in truth, words can be scary.  The ability to take your mind to places unknown, or to make you think of things maybe you didn’t want to.  Powerful things words are.

And though “Eliza” states that she’s sick of words, I’m not, but sometimes lots of words are intimidating.

Signing off
~K.L. Branson