"Get Ready, Get Motivated!"
Many famous writers have commented on their inspiration, motivation or experience of writing.
Fill in the blanks in each quotation with the correct word from the list. Each word is used only once.
- difficult
- discovery
- suffering
- unable
- vein
- blood
Do you see some themes emerging? Are any of these quotations a good reminder for your particular view of the writing process?
- Writing became such a process of _________ that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~ Sharon O'Brien
- Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of ________ form on your forehead. ~ Gene Fowler
- A writer is somebody for whom writing is more _____________ than it is for other people. ~ Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947 [Because we care more, making sure the words spilled craft the exact experience we intend.]
- We write in order to make _________ endurable, evil intelligible, justice desirable and love possible. ~Roger Rosenblatt
- There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a ___________. ~ Walter Wellesley
- The role of the writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are __________ to say. ~ Anais Nin
Correct answers are posted at the end of the March 22 entry.