Genesis 1:1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth... Then on the 9th day God created the Blog, which probably came right after the duck-billed platypus. (Which in turn goes to show that God does have a sense of humor. . .) God and I have been wrestling quite a bit as of late on a number of different levels and over a multitude of different topics. (The closer I get to God the more we seem to fight about things. I'm hesitant to characterize it in terms of marriage for fear of my own wife. But those of you with significant others have an understanding of what I'm speaking.) One of the things in contention is this very blog that you are now reading. I have tried in the past to blog and fallen miserably short of even giving it a decent try. My lack of time, lousy typing capabilities, and the painfully slow process with which I write (What you've read so far has taken the better part of an hour.) has deprived me of the joy that comes from freely expressing oneself. What I was really waiting for was video blogging to become more mainstream before taking the plunge. Then I could just talk at the camera for 15 minutes upload the product to You Tube and be happy as a clam. However, I do love the beauty of the written word and I do not own a camera that I can hook up to my computer. (Plus, video blogs are even more boring than written ones . . . heaven forbid, and then there's the fact that Tracy guilted me into it.) I just can't win.The best laid schemes of Mice and Men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
-Robert Burns
While I did use guilt, I am really trying to make you a better person. Here are some of my favorite quotes on writing that have inspired me:
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ~Flannery O'Connor
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith