staring out the window

Prompt #1007

carolinecrane — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:19:24 GMT

Today's Quote:

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do. -- V. S. Naipaul

Today's Prompts:

+ One of these days he was going to learn how to choose his battles.

+

Prompt #1006

carolinecrane — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:02:50 GMT

Today's Quote:

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. -- V. S. Naipaul

Today's Prompts:

+ "It still hurts all the time."

+

Prompt #1005

carolinecrane — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:29:06 GMT

Today's Quote:

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. -- Olin Miller

Today's Prompts:

+ write about the old recipe

+

Prompt #1004

carolinecrane — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:56:35 GMT

Today's Quote:

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. -- John le Carre

Today's Prompts:

+ "It's been like that for days."

+

Prompt #1003

carolinecrane — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:55:45 GMT

Today's Quote:

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing. -- Alice Hoffman

Today's Prompts:

+ Today's fortune: You are not alone. (Look out the window.)

+

Prompt 1002

carolinecrane — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:10:21 GMT

Today's Quote:

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working. -- Alice Hoffman

Today's Prompts:

+ there was blood all over the sink

+

Prompt #1001

carolinecrane — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:07:38 GMT

Today's Quote:

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work. -- Glenn Frey

Today's Prompts:

+ "I'd give it an 8 out of 10."

+

Prompt #1000

carolinecrane — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:07:07 GMT

Today's Quote:

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. -- Denis Johnson

Today's Prompts:

+ write about the misdirected letter

+

Prompt #999

carolinecrane — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:09:41 GMT

Today's Quote:

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. -- David Cronenberg

Today's Prompts:

+ "You've got sixty seconds."

+

Prompt #998

carolinecrane — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:59:43 GMT

Today's Quote:

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. -- Harold Pinter

Today's Prompts:

+ "He's already gone."

+

Prompt #997

carolinecrane — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:44:20 GMT

Today's Quote:

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. -- Iris Murdoch

Today's Prompts:

+ write about the last day

+

Prompt #996

carolinecrane — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:53:49 GMT

Today's Quote:

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. -- Mary Oliver

Today's Prompts:

+ "This is the last one."

+

Prompt #995

carolinecrane — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:37:50 GMT

Today's Quote:

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. -- Lukas Foss

Today's Prompts:

+ "He said he'd be here at ten."

+

Prompt #994

carolinecrane — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:18:48 GMT

Today's Quote:

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. -- Roald Dahl

Today's Prompts:

+ she still wasn't sure why they stopped being friends

+

Prompt #993

carolinecrane — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:49:37 GMT

Today's Quote:

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. -- Brian Molko

Today's Prompts:

+ write about the broken chair

+

Prompt #992

carolinecrane — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:21:35 GMT

Today's Quote:

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. -- Stephen Leacock

Today's Prompts:

+ "Try not to go overboard."

+

Prompt #991

carolinecrane — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:50:21 GMT

Today's Quote:

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. -- Alice Walker

Today's Prompts:

+ "How much is it?"

+

Prompt #990

carolinecrane — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:19:06 GMT

Today's Quote:

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Today's Prompts:

+ Today's fortune: Your patience will be tried.

+

Prompt #989

carolinecrane — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:26:38 GMT

Today's Quote:

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it. -- Margaret Haddix

Today's Prompts:

+ write about the moment after he gets out of the taxi

+

Prompt #988

carolinecrane — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:15:14 GMT

Today's Quote:

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. -- Erica Jong

Today's Prompts:

+ it wasn't the first time they'd heard the noise

+

Prompt #987

carolinecrane — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:30:06 GMT

Today's Quote:

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing. -- Shelby Foote

Today's Prompts:

+ "I was hoping for more."

+

Prompt #986

carolinecrane — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:44:31 GMT

Today's Quote:

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. -- Janet Frame

Today's Prompts:

+ write about the one on the bottom of the pile

+

Prompt #985

carolinecrane — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:29:28 GMT

Today's Quote:

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. -- Susan Sontag

Today's Prompts:

+ "Did you lock the door?"

+

Prompt #984

carolinecrane — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:09:48 GMT

Today's Quote:

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. -- W. Somerset Maugham

Today's Prompts:

+ her feet were propped on the dashboard when the car hit them

+

Prompt #983

carolinecrane — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:41:58 GMT

Today's Quote:

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. -- Keith Richards

Today's Prompts:

+ write about the voice in the darkness

+