Andreas Matern’s Weblog

From the Writer’s Perspective:

WD: You’re terribly prolific, but a lot of writers produce one book in a lifetime. Would you advise young writers to spend all their time polishing one piece or to go for quantity?

BRADBURY: It simply follows that quantity produces quality. Only if you do a lot will you ever be any good. If you do very little, you’ll never have quality of idea or quality of output. The excitement and creativity comes from a whole lot of doing; hoping you’ll suddenly be struck by lightning. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed. The history of literature is the history of prolific people. I always say to students, give me four pages a day, every day. That’s three or four hundred thousand words a year. Most of that will be bilge, but the rest … It will save your life!

Found this while Stumbling…

Battleground Analysis

Congratulations!

You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction! This is our second highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.

The fact that you progressed through this activity being hit only once and biting no bullets suggests that your beliefs about God are well thought out and almost entirely internally consistent.

The direct hit you suffered occurred because one set of your answers implied a logical contradiction. At the bottom of this page, we have reproduced the analysis of your direct hit. You would have bitten bullets had you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, this did not occur which means that despite the direct hit you qualify for our second highest award. A good achievement!

Whew that’s a relief :) 

I love that comic

All work and no play makes Andreas a dull boy.  I can’t really complain, I had a wonderful weekend.  But now it is Tuesday and the real work part of my life is threatening to take over.  That’s the way it is, I guess.

Tonight we’re going to the MFA for a member’s only shindig, which sounds great.  Maybe some Cafe D afterwards?

Found a great writing post while surfing through my bloglines this morning.  An article about Denis Leane which makes me admire him a bit more.  That was from yet another post I read.  All of which really comes down to this - I need to make time for writing, and stop bitching about all the other things that take up so much time.  So, less blog reading, less goofing off and a bit more time spent throwing up gray matter through the keyboard into the ether.  It really doesn’t take much to start.  Inspiration is really everywhere.