The Process of Re-inventing Myself: "Sick of sitting around here trying to write this book"

Monday, July 7, 2008

"Sick of sitting around here trying to write this book"

That's a line from Dancing in the Dark. Courtney Cox never new what hit her. The music is so poppy and dance-able that you forget the lyrics are about someone who is hurting for love.

Well, I'm not hurting for love, but this line I like...because sometimes I am just sick of sitting around and trying to write... so today I am going for a hike. Yesterday I couldn't because it was raining bad all day all over the place. Tomorrow I have more potential business and I have to get some adverts out for that side. Many hats make things interesting, but doesn't really allow for deep progress in one area. Which is what I really want, but am having some trouble getting to...

maybe I feel like I am trying to start a fire without a spark... right now I just feel like I am dancing in the dark and I need my leap of faith again...

Who Am I?

You're Catch-22!
by Joseph Heller
Incredibly witty and funny, you have a taste for irony in all that you see. It seems that life has put you in perpetually untenable situations, and your sense of humor is all that gets you through them. These experiences have also made you an ardent pacifist, though you present your message with tongue sewn into cheek. You could coin a phrase that replaces the word "paradox" for millions of people.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

You're an Eagle!
Sharp-witted and high-flying, you seem to radiate honor and a sense of pride. You'd make a very good lawyer with your keen eye for details. When up in that rare air, however, make sure to remember to look down to keep your bearings. You never know when it might be important for you to have landed. If you're bald, you love the United States of America, but if you have hair, you feel more ambivalent about it.
Take the Animal Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Favorite Quotes

"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."

~ Sinclair Lewis

“That’s what building a body of work is all about: it’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime, to a lasting legacy.” -- President Barack Obama

"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. And let history make its own judgments." -- Zefram Cochrane

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Sophocles

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. "
William Osler

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. "
William Osler

"If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing."
~ Pearl S. Buck

“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”
- Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale, US clergyman (1898 - 1993)

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday, July 7, 2008

"Sick of sitting around here trying to write this book"

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