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Are you writing about what you dream or do you dream of writing…decide and tell your story…
 
Featured Quote:
“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
William Faulkner
 
Featured Poems:
There is No Frigate Like a Book
By: Emily Dickinson
 
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!

Poems from our forums and relationships found…
 
Featured Quotes:
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
  
Featured Poem: One Word Is Too Often Profaned
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
 
One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it;
One feeling too falsely disdained
For thee to disdain it;
One hope is too like despair
For prudence to smother;
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
 
I can give not what men call love;
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the heavens reject not,
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow?

Choices for you and choices for your characters…End where you began but make it a good one…   Feature Quote: “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright   Featured Poem:Traveling Through the Dark By: William Stafford   Traveling through the dark [...]

More podcasts and thoughts to get your writing moving and your creativity flowing…John shares a one last handful of his favorite audio inspirations…
 
Featured Quotes:
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
By: Robert Frost
 
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
By: Robert Frost
  
John shares some more of his favorite podcasts that help inspire and influence him.  
 
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Podcasts and thoughts to get your writing moving and your creativity flowing…John shares a handful of his favorite audio inspirations…
 
Featured Quote:
Belief, by definition is an assent to a proposition. It is any cognitive content that is held true. It is some expression or a vague idea in which some confidence is placed. Thus, it defines some sort of an agreement with the world view. It may be unproven assertion based on some of the fundamental assumptions. Belief is a form of judging something to be true, intermediate between mere opinion and certain knowledge. To believe something in this sense is to judge that it is true by virtue of “a ground that is objectively insufficient but subjectively sufficient”; in mere opinion neither is sufficient, in knowledge both conditions are met.Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
 
By: George Orwell
   
John shares some of his favorite podcasts that help inspire and influence him. 

Do you believe in your characters? OK, but do you have faith in your characters to live beyond the time you put them on paper? Is there a difference? Listen and engage in the writing prompts.
 
Featured Quote:
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
 
Inspiration for this week’s conversation:
Six Characters in Search of an Author is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello
  
Featured Poem: The Computation
By: John Donne
 
FOR my first twenty years, since yesterday,
I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away ;
For forty more I fed on favours past,
And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last ;
Tears drown`d one hundred, and sighs blew out two ;
A thousand, I did neither think nor do,
Or not divide, all being one thought of you ;
Or in a thousand more, forgot that too.
Yet call not this long life ; but think that I
Am, by being dead, immortal ; can ghosts die ?

“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” Jim Henson

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” Dale Carnegie

“We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving, And we all have the power To make wishes come true, As long as we keep believing.” Louisa May Alcott

“Who so loves believes the impossible.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Have you ever thought that the horse of a different color could be real? What if the wish of one little girl helped make this fantasy more of a reality? What if the horse changed colors depending on the mood it was in? What if? What if? That is what the 6 year old little [...]

Grandma has not been feeling well recently. In fact, her grandchildren think that she is starting to lose more than her memory. She seems to have intimate conversations with her cat. One day, however, her littlest granddaughter over hears one of those conversations…both sides… This story connects the imagination of a little one with the [...]

Welcome to the second Story Institute newsletter. No time for wasting…let’s rambling on through the storylines… During the autumn of inspiration, it is important for the belief to change colors, but remain attached to the base from which it sprouted. You read it correctly…the autumn of inspiration…Belief is an important part of any story. If [...]

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” Carl Sandburg