It’s Monday here at the Eclectic Eccentric and the start of the work week for most of you out in the world so I thought as a little bit of extra motivation for both you and for me I would share some of my favorite opening lines in all of literature in this month’s edition of Wily Wordplay. As always the quotes are in no particular order. Enjoy! “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I…
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Wily Wordplay- On Writing
As you’ve been perusing this site you’ve no doubt seen several mentions of my ongoing pursuit of a professional writing career. With a poetry book out and a novel finished I hope that dream is closer to becoming a reality. But it is no easy thing to make a living by telling stories born of your own heart and mind. Discouragement is as common a thing to a write as the dawn is to the sun. In those times I like to seek out some of my heroes for their take on a struggle I know we have shared. And…