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Imagination is the beginning of creation. -- George Bernard Shaw "One can't believe impossible things," said Alice. "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ---- Alice in Wonderland "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." -- Richard Bach Clear and cool, clear and cool, By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool. --- from Water-Babies Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.--Anne Sexton Here today, up and off somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! -- Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows "I write when I'm inspired, and see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. -- Peter DeVries
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Now that you're all wet... What did you discover?  Glorious words...that have nothing to do with what you thought you were going to write about? Intriguing & unrelated ideas and phrases in the same line? The beginnings of a grocery list? (Hey, anything's possible in the river!)This is the After Flood Stage, where the other voices in your head come out to play: the organizer the editorIn the After Flood Stage, you're now beside the river, like a gold miner with his shallow metal pan.
Start to sift:
If, after the above, you still clutch your riverwriting nuggets without knowing a direction: Toss one of them back in the river and... Jump in the river again! |
