“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.”
Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself) 1819-1892
Photo by Mathew Brady (Public Domain)
This week on Writing From the Peak...
* Let Us Speak of Rejection from DeAnna Knippling
* Characterization Through Setting from Karen Albright Lin
* Sweet Success - J.T. Evans from Kathie Scrimgeour
Please note that there will be no Writer's Night tomorrow, due to Memorial Day. Writer's Night will return to Ivywild June 23. See you then!
* Let Us Speak of Rejection from DeAnna Knippling
* Characterization Through Setting from Karen Albright Lin
* Sweet Success - J.T. Evans from Kathie Scrimgeour
Please note that there will be no Writer's Night tomorrow, due to Memorial Day. Writer's Night will return to Ivywild June 23. See you then!
What a lovely quote! And what a lovely reminder of the importance of capturing the moment that makes us write before it disappears into too much thought.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Elizabeth.
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