week 5/15

Quotes about Writing

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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent.

—Jim Jarmusch

Write because you have something in your soul that you want to communicate.

– Amish Tripathi

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

– Neil Gaiman

Blogging 101 Assignment: Share Links

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Obviously this is a limited list. I try to post links when I find ones that will be of some help to my readers. These are a few of the most important ones for me at the moment in no particular order. I’m sure I will add more in the coming days.

Random Acts
The Trevor Project
Brother Mickey McGrath
Thesaurus
Urban Dictionary
IRS
Punxsutawney Phil
National Domestic Violence Hotline
National Weather Service
Catholic Culture
Transgender Law Center

A Doctor Who Sketch

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Featuring Captain Jack Harkness, The (Tenth) Doctor, and Donna Noble. 

You can hear them, can’t you?

Jack: “Hello.”

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The Doctor: “No.”
Jack: “What?”
The Doctor: “No.”
Jack: “I can’t say hello?”
The Doctor: “No.”

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Donna: “It’s alright. I don’t mind.”
The Doctor: *eyeroll*

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Donna: “Give us a hug.”

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An Actual Agenda for This Week ;)

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Actually, to be fair to myself I usually do have some sort of plan for the week even if all it might be is my still-new daily format.

However, as many of you know I’ve been trying to expand my writing horizons by participating in Blogging 101, an online workshop that talks about and let’s me try out some of the features here at WordPress. I’ve fallen a bit behind the daily assignments, prioritizing with what I posted instead, and I thought I would use this week to do a little catch up.

Although today I’m already behind since I’ve been out all morning, getting groceries and running some errands after Mass to prepare for the huge snowstorm that’s predicted for us (even though I thought it was supposed to start around one and it is now after three with nary a flake.)

I’m also trying to remake my corner office into some semblance of order, and my mornings to include a prayer or contemplation time to focus and center myself to go forward with my day whatever else I have planned and whatever else it may bring.

One more week in January. A good time to rethink my goals and resolutions and add/subtract as necessary.