Writers' Block

One of the best things to do when you're suffering from a writers' block and you're convinced that writing is your true calling, is to READ. Read motivating stuff about writing, read silly stuff about writing read about anything, get addicted to a TV series like Games of Thrones as I have been, watch it with mindless involvement, admire the characters, the plot, the action, the themes, just the way it is conceived and the way the characters are created and given depth. Of course, one of the 12 rules of writing is to write a little everyday. This I guess is my quota for today. Obviously it is not very meaningful or readworthy, the black just eats up a little more of the white space and well. Not every word is supposed to mean something is it? Oh Well. I guess the excercise is what really matters. So stray-reader, who's fumbled on this  blog by mistake, go ahead and do something that makes you happy! Stimulate your mind and do something that makes you say- Voila- I love this and I am at peace with everything around me!

Ciao!

Qui scribit bis legit - He who writes reads twice

A few interesting Latin phrases:

Scribere est agere - To write is to act

Sine qua non - Something/someone indispensable

Sub dio - Under the open sky

Ad astra per aspera - To the stars through difficulty

Ad augusta per angusta - To high places by narrow roads

Aude sapere - Dare to know

Cacoethes scribendi - An insatiable urge to write. (Juvenal)

Confiteor - I confess

Fide, non armis - By faith, not arms

Genus irritabile vatum - The irritable race of poets. (Horace)

Hic et nunc - Here and now

In nubibus - In the clouds

Lapsus calami - A slip of the pen

Memorabilia - Memorable things

Meum pactum dictum - My word is my bond

Mvlti svnt vocati, pavci vero electi - Many are called [but] few are chosen

Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis - Unless you will have believed, you will not understand. (St. Augustine)

Verba volant, (littera) scripta manet - Words fly away, the written (letter) remains

Write Quotes

"One's writing can only be as good as one's reading."  - Ben Okri

"Reason and taste, two powers of the intelligence, are rightly the supreme gods of the prose stylist, while to the poet they are only minor deities."  -S.A. (The Future Poetry, 16)

"Once the water is deep enough that you must swim to stay afloat, does it really meatter how deep the pool is? "

"The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw." Virginia Woolf.

"Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today!"  -James Dean

"If you're not lost then you're in a place somebody's already found." Junot Diaz.