“There is no perfect time to write. There’s only now.”

“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.”

Is everyone feeling good about their goals? Making new habits? Getting pages written? Share the news and exhaustion and trials and triumphs.

Sorry I’m so late with this. The winner of the Box ‘O Goodies from August 19th is….

Maude Clare!

Maude, send me your snail mail address via joleigh AT joleigh DOT com, and I’ll send out your box of fun!

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate and I eliminate the possibility of ever finishing.”

Less than a month to go, you beautiful sweaty people! How’re those words coming? Head over to Larissa Ione’s blog today for some extra inspiration to send you speeding down the home stretch!

“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth… But amusing? Never.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”