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More words from Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird:
You are going to have to give and give and give and give, or there’s no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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Some of the notable blog entries that I have recently starred in Google reader:
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From Anne Lamott’s fantastic book on writing (and life), Bird by Bird:
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer’s job is to see what’s behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words–not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues.
When I am marked by a film, a book, a painting, or any artistic piece, there is a quality to it that captures what Anne Lamott explains here. The best creative expressions are those that usher us into places that we don’t want to go, or places we yearn to go, but don’t seem to know how.
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Andy Ihnatko reviews Scrivener in his weekly technology column today: Scrivener is in the write place. I’m already on the record stating that Scrivener is an app I wish I was cool enough to use. Andy Ihnatko’s column stirs my interest and notches me one more step toward coolness.
One thing I can say about Scrivener…it has a great model for a trial. The trial period is 30 days of use, but they do not seem to be consecutive days. In other words, the trial does not end 30 days after you first open the program. Rather, each day you use it counts as one day of the trial. So, if you go three days without opening the program, those three days don’t count as part of your trial. This is a model for a trial that very reasonable, and one that more shareware providers should consider.
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Mariner Software released StoryMill 3.0 today. StoryMill is a program that is designed for writing fiction with built-in means to track characters, settings and a timeline. This program was originally known as Avenir before Mariner purchased the rights and updated it.
I picked up a discounted license for Avenir when it was on MacZot a few months ago. I’ve had an increasing interest in writing fiction, so I was hoping that having Avenir sitting in my apps folder would inspire me. So far, it has only taunted me.
Mariner offers an upgrade from Avenir to StoryMill for only $15. I had that much sitting restlessly in my PayPal account, so I went for it. Now, I will just have to wait and see if my purchase leads to motivation or mocking.
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