Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. – Walter Elliot Back in 2008 when I started this blog, One Writer’s Journal, I gathered quotes to share on the middle of the week post. Later I started doing two full posts each week and have kept it up for all these years. This post …
Some things I’ve Learned as a Writer
I started writing when I was around ten years old. That means I’ve been writing a very long time. Sometimes with success. Sometimes without success – at least in publishing that writing. But the actual writing was always successful because words spilled out on paper. Perhaps not the best words. But words were written. In those childhood days, writing was …
Deadline – Three Days and Counting
A goal is a dream with a deadline. ~Napoleon Hill Persistence is the word I always tell aspiring writers they need to be sure is in their arsenal of writing tools. It’s good to have a gift for words. It’s even better to have the imagination to come up with unique and exciting story ideas. Enthusiasm for any project is …
Quotes to help you keep on keeping on
Here’s a couple of quotes to help you keep on keeping on even if today you’re discouraged. We all get discouraged. Some of us sometimes wonder if we should keep trying to follow our dreams. If success is out there anywhere. So here’s some encouragement. Don’t give up. Keep dreaming. Keep working toward those dreams. “Genius, that power which dazzles …