On Writing -- Bird By Bird
Some quotes wrote by Anne Lamott that I write to remember
Sorry for those that read this blog for the security stuff. The thing is that sometime I want to write, and share these writings, on other subjects than security. The more I write the more I have things to write about. Ideas come up in my minds and only disappear when I wrote them, otherwise they say: "I'll not go out of your brain until you write me down! Otherwise you'll lose me forever!" As you know, I started to write for myself with this blog. At first it was an experience. More and more it become a part of me; I become more and more with the writer's thinking. Hahaha not a professional, but a tinny neophyte. I don't aspect to be a professional writer (hope for you); I just aspect to continue to write for myself.
I just finished reading a beautiful book called Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. It's a book that anybody who write for fun or profit need to read and reread. It's a true and inspirational work on writing and writers. It initiates you in world of writing and publishing. I really appreciated the work and I need to write quotes from the book to be able to remember them time to time.
It can seem that I ripped the whole book but I hadn't the patience to do it. I suggest you to buy it at your local bookstore or if there is none, on Amazon. It's a 15$ well spent.
"Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way."
"E.L. Doctorow once said that "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trop that way." You don't have to see where you’re going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, life, I have ever heard... Read the Full Story...
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