tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post1877172790109322534..comments2024-03-29T05:45:39.184-06:00Comments on Blood-Red Pencil: InspirationDanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471919576687777886noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-59670075472249677722013-01-17T10:06:09.152-07:002013-01-17T10:06:09.152-07:00Susan, this post is a keeper. Sorry I couldn't...Susan, this post is a keeper. Sorry I couldn't join in the conversation yesterday but I was trudging through a different part of my life!<br /><br />I love the phrase "the slough of despond." This word pairing is new to me and tickles my inner wordsmith. You never know where inspiration is going to come from, do you...Kathryn Crafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08371458857187160425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-47658467535120735472013-01-16T14:08:32.350-07:002013-01-16T14:08:32.350-07:00Great post. I've had both the highs and the lo...Great post. I've had both the highs and the lows. Even during the highs when everything flows from your fingers to the screen and everything is brilliant, there will still be edits and rewrites and hair pulling.Helen Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794759602654727110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-10461726800927920202013-01-16T13:06:49.264-07:002013-01-16T13:06:49.264-07:00Yep, Terry, that's the point--just get it on t...Yep, Terry, that's the point--just get it on the page! And Christopher, you always make me laugh. What you just wrote was very creative! It extracted you straight out of that mud! <br /><br />Thanks to everyone about the new book. We're having so much fun with it already!Susan Mary Malonehttp://www.maloneeditorial.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-14662192064468383832013-01-16T10:51:58.507-07:002013-01-16T10:51:58.507-07:00What a great post and terrific comments. I love wh...What a great post and terrific comments. I love when the history of a word is explored. I had not heard of Hinds Feet, but it sounds like a book I would enjoy. <br /><br />Congrats, Susan, on your new book. I love the cover, by the way. Maryannwriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09479027709233807149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-14081803266138931382013-01-16T10:48:22.898-07:002013-01-16T10:48:22.898-07:00Great comment, Larry -- inspire, transpire, perspi...Great comment, Larry -- inspire, transpire, perspire, conspire -- yes, to each and every one in the writing process. "Ruach" in Hebrew, "pneuma" in Greek, "inspire" in English -- it perpetuates life itself in any language. <br /><br />Excellent post, Susan, and congrats on your new book.Linda Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06686488133905538811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-77419682105233285312013-01-16T08:41:32.111-07:002013-01-16T08:41:32.111-07:00Another timely post from ye olde BRP, as, at the m...Another timely post from ye olde BRP, as, at the moment, progress on my WIP is up to it's axles in mud ... I've been looking around for a tree to attach the cable from my bumper-mounted winch (have I tortured this metaphor enough ... let's see) and lo and behold I find it in this inspiring article. Let's hope that I have not hooked the cable to a sapling (guess not).Christopher Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03667548312923348614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-41068541062213932872013-01-16T08:40:07.349-07:002013-01-16T08:40:07.349-07:00When I hit those muddy patches, I remember what No...When I hit those muddy patches, I remember what Nora Roberts says. "You can't fix a blank page." Or, I get out my writing shirt that says, "Even if it's crap, just get it on the page." You don't hit perfection the first time around. Or the second. Or ... well, you get it. <br /><br />Terry <br /><a href="http://terryodell.com/terrysplace" rel="nofollow">Terry's Place</a><br />Terry Odellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610682530545306687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-25412012826852925682013-01-16T08:39:25.298-07:002013-01-16T08:39:25.298-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Christopher Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03667548312923348614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-35088268785563158952013-01-16T07:57:12.767-07:002013-01-16T07:57:12.767-07:00I meant Alison :)I meant Alison :)Susan Mary Malonehttp://www.maloneeditorial.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-46087760304319509212013-01-16T07:56:20.638-07:002013-01-16T07:56:20.638-07:00Love that, Larry!
And Susan--another Hind's ...Love that, Larry! <br />And Susan--another Hind's Feet fan! Just loved that book. <br /><br />Thanks about the new book. What fun we had writing it!Susan Mary Malonehttp://www.maloneeditorial.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-78408908328101715442013-01-16T07:05:42.051-07:002013-01-16T07:05:42.051-07:00Susan, Kudos on your latest book. And thanks for t...Susan, Kudos on your latest book. And thanks for the inspiring post. "Hind’s Feet on High Places" was one of my favorite reads—perhaps it is time to pull it off the shelf again and to read it with your muse perspective in mind. <br /><br />Larry, Love your comment. :-)alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17481879917467051418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-31262162199840777762013-01-16T05:43:51.400-07:002013-01-16T05:43:51.400-07:00I love your book already for its inspired title! C...I love your book already for its inspired title! Congratulations.<br /><br />At its roots, inspire is actually to breathe in or into. The conflation of breath and spirit is ancient and found in many languages--<i>ruach</i> (רוח) in Hebrew, for example, both spirit and wind.<br /><br />Inspiration is an event. In writing, I would say that what <b>transpires</b> after one is <b>inspired</b> is even more important. Fingers flying over the keyboard in a state of flow, ideas cascading over each other, a whirlwind of words rushing into being as the writer <b>perspires</b> in fever-pitch invention, then breathes a sigh of satisfaction.<br /><br />It is a spiritual experience when the forces <b>conspire</b> in our favor, but so much of writing is the more tedious schlepping of words from one place to another. That uphill trek is the truer story behind storytelling.Larry Constantine (Lior Samson)http://www.amazon.com/author/liorsamson/noreply@blogger.com