If you had to choose to live in 3075 or 1875, which would you pick, and why?
What do you think you’d find there?
Category Archives: #ReaderFriday
Reader Friday: Your Song
Sir Elton John, Wikimedia Commons
Sir Elton John has retired from the road. I’m a fan of his Bernie Taupin era, saw him in concert twice. I was in high school when his first hit, “Your Song,” came out. Which prompts today’s question: If you had an intro song that played every time you walked into a room, what would it be?
Reader Friday: Start the Music?
Reader Friday: Reading Habits
Reader Friday: Keep On Writing?
“With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has stretched your understanding. I know that. Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, [or] would never make another cent from it, I would keep on writing.” – Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write
Would you?
NOTE: This was one of the books I read early in my writing journey, and found it inspiring. As of this writing the Kindle version is just 49¢.
Reader Friday: Bucket List
Reader Friday: Contact Sport
Irwin Shaw
I once told a class I was teaching that writing is an intellectual contact sport, similar in some respects to football. The effort required can be exhausting…and you are hurt on almost every play; but that doesn’t deprive you from getting peculiar pleasures from the game. — Irwin Shaw
Discuss!
What was a time when a seemingly random event or conversation changed your life, or way of thinking, in a significant way?
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” – Reggie Leach, retired Canadian hockey player.
Goals are important. Goals keep us on track and moving forward.