The Australian Association of Writing Programs

Sources of earlier Hemingway quotes: the one that begins "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about..." comes from Death in the Afternoon, p. 192. {All quotes refer to Scribner paperback editions of H's work.]

The second quote about 'write about it don't talk about it' I couldn't find. I read the whole book [Phlllips, Larry W. Ernest Hemingway on Writing] twice (it's only a little book) but may have missed it in a larger quote.

Don't know if many of you have regular access to the Insanity Streak cartoons. Today's shows an apparently happy Inuit fishing through the pavement after removing a manhole cover. Standing around are a number of entranced persons, including a cat.

I had the awful thought that we, all artists in all genres, count on these bemused observers.

Whereas I am the character who didn't get an 'anti-procrastination' sign painted in time for the anti-procrastination demonstration.

regards all

BME

Another quote on the subject of writing:

"There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that." -- W Somerset Maugham

Today, the Ides of March, is a reminder of great writing in the English Language.

Apart from which, they do say (scientists that is) that reading Shakespeare activates structures in the brain that don't get as look-in otherwise.

BME

AAWP STUDENT EDITOR INTRO – 01MAR10

Hi everyone: welcome to March, month of Saint David and Saint Patrick, month of transitions.