Words of Wisdom

A. Powell Davies:
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

Abraham Lincoln:
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Alan Bennett:
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all looking for the key.

Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Alice Walker:
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?

Amelia Burr:
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Anais Nin:
People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin:
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Annie Dillard:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Ben Jonson:
A good life is a main argument.

Benjamin Franklin:
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.

Buckminster Fuller:
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Buddha:
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Carl Jung:
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Sandburg:
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Charlotte Bronte:
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Chinese proverb:
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Examining Your Writing Career

Examining Your Writing Career

Are you writing enough?

Are trying hard enough to become a better writer?

Are you reaching out to enough editors, trying to build a wider network?

Are you following through on your ideas or letting them evaporate over time?

Are you negotiating with editors for more money or learning how to do so?

Are your goals well defined or out there somewhere, too fuzzy to really see?

Are you pitching enough stories?

Are you networking enough or do you have the misguided view that talent is enough to get you to the top?

Are you kidding yourself with the idea of being a professional writer or do you really mean it?

Are you critical enough to grasp your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?

Are you happy with your writing?

Are you happy with your writing career?

Are you trying hard enough to be a writer?

Only YOU know all the answers to these.