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Chapter 6: It’s Only Coffee, Right?
Why did I agree to meet him right now, or at all? Does he deserve to see me after what had happened between us?
Maybe it’s not about him deserving to see me, but more about him owing me an explanation.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Exciting news! I’m revealing the cover for HEARTS AND ERRORS on 12/12/18, so check back soon! Have a great day, everyone!
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Upcoming novel releasing 1/19/19
CHAPTER 2: The Article
“Make a wish,” I mumble to myself, lifting it up and fanning the pages.
A loose leaf falls on my shoes.
I pick it up and notice the creases across the page. I iron it out with my hand, pressing it against my leg. As I do, I find myself drawn to a pull quote that says: I remember having this sudden urge to get lost somewhere, discover something new, or dream something big.
I hold it closer, my eyes gawking at the words.
The title says:
Merci, Paris
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RELEASING 1/19/19
More excerpts to come from my upcoming novel HEARTS AND ERRORS! Stay tuned!
Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone!
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
—Richard Bach
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
—Richard Bach
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
—Barbara Kingsolver
“Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.”
-Jerry B. Jenkins
So true. So very true.
Write drunk; edit sober.
— Ernest Hemingway
Hmm, maybe that’s my problem—I write sober and edit drunk. I’m kidding. I haven’t tried drinking and writing, but I may have to one of these days. 😉