“Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others: because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little more wisdom, goodness and sanity.”
I saw this on Aerogramme Writers’ Studio today, a video from The School of Life, and I want to share it with you.
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h What You WriteThe easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of “aspiring” writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That’s how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That’s how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.
CHUCK WENDIG
Bow-Moo-Meow: Poems and Stories about Animals
Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Poetry, Prose: Jennifer Bullis, Rick Clark, J. Glenn Evans, David D. Horowitz, Bethany Reid, and Douglas Schuder
Room 202, The Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle
Telephone: David, 206-633-2725
E-mail: David, rosealleypress@juno.com
URL: www.rosealleypress.com; www.historicseattle.org
StringTown Magazine & StringTown Press Reading | Sept. 14 Readings from area StringTown contributors including Bethany Reid, Judith Skillman, Larry Crist, Polly Buckingham, Caroline Allen, Anita Boyle, and James Bertolino, followed by a reception and signing. 7 p.m., Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, free.
Wow, my name on the Seattle Times Literary Arts Calendar! I’d love to see you there. Stringtown is a gorgeous publication, and I’ll be selling SPARROW, too, at a discounted price.