#236 - Essential
The prompt this week comes from the book, Walking on Alligators by Susan Shaughnessy. In it she quotes Voltaire: "The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything."
In writing and in life, the secret is sometimes in what you leave out.
"Start now to separate out what is essential for what you will write today. What you set aside is not lost. It remains, a part of your growing capital of ideas." - Susan Shaughnessy
Tell us what is essential for you today - but only tell us the essential bits.
In writing and in life, the secret is sometimes in what you leave out.
"Start now to separate out what is essential for what you will write today. What you set aside is not lost. It remains, a part of your growing capital of ideas." - Susan Shaughnessy
Tell us what is essential for you today - but only tell us the essential bits.
posted by Sunday Scribblings at 12:37 AM
22 Comments:
Ah, the essentials! What a great way to really go over the mental checklist and really see what that is. Great prompt!
I love both these quotes - thank you!!
The Essential I just posted is a COMPLETE work of fiction. Absolutely NO frame of reference for it. None. Really.
I decided to do a poem in both English and Spanish!
Pamela
I just went through a summer's worth of pictures and picked a few to represent what is life itself to me.
I think what's essential really varies with the situation
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I did a poem
Click on the list above
"Me" time is essential :-)
A little late but posted.
OK, will start now. Hmmm... manic-depressives sometimes have a hard time with the "wheat vs. chaff" debate, so it may take time, LOL. Amy
Posted on what is "essential" for my survival...my safe harbor.
Posted here today... but may have attached it in the wrong space... last weeks? Sorry
finding beauty in this world - that is my essential. Family, friends. nature, God - all are a part of that.
Sorry Guys I still can't work out why it won't take me to the latest post instead of an old one. Oh I am not winning.
life ...essential
This word made me sad. So that's what I wrote...
Oh my gosh, I misspelled my own name in the link... wow, it has been a looooong day! :)
New to your blog. Very excited to join!
Thanks Courtney for sharing this....looks like a great blog!!
I have linked in a poem essential for a person...an opportunity!
Here is the link - I'm posting multiples today! Thanks, Amy
http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/the-essentials-sunday-scribblings/
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