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The Heart of a Woman, a poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars
A poem by Claude McKay: On Broadway
About me young careless feet
Linger along the garish street;
Above, a hundred shouting signs
Shed down their bright fantastic glow
Upon the merry crowd and lines
Of moving carriages below
Oh wonderful is Broadway -- only
My heart, my heart is lonely
Desire naked, linked with Passion,
Goes trutting by in brazen fashion;
From playhouse, cabaret and inn
The rainbow lights of Broadway blaze
All gay without, all glad within;
As in a dream I stand and gaze
At Broadway, shining Broadway -- only
My heart, my heart is lonely.
About me young careless feet
Linger along the garish street;
Above, a hundred shouting signs
Shed down their bright fantastic glow
Upon the merry crowd and lines
Of moving carriages below
Oh wonderful is Broadway -- only
My heart, my heart is lonely
Desire naked, linked with Passion,
Goes trutting by in brazen fashion;
From playhouse, cabaret and inn
The rainbow lights of Broadway blaze
All gay without, all glad within;
As in a dream I stand and gaze
At Broadway, shining Broadway -- only
My heart, my heart is lonely.
"Start Writing And Become A Better Person"
For people who have always wanted to improve themselves and become a better person, here is a way for you to do so. Just pick your pen or laptop and START WRITING. Yes, writing is a very good way to improvise you. If you are wondering how then we have the answer for that.
Discipline
Sports is a very good platform to improve discipline. But what about people who are not into sports. For those people, writing can be a very good option. Writing just for a few minutes every day can teach you patience and discipline. To write something you need to have a systematic approach, which reflects in your day to day life.
Gratitude
According to research, people who write down the good things of their life every week are found to be more motivated and positive. It helps people realize the value of everything they have got and not to take things for granted. By writing, you can understand your life.
Better reader
As a writer, you read the works of others with a keen interest to improve yourself. You do not read like a normal reader, you read, imply, and try to connect all possible dots of the content. You analyse the works of others, find the positive for you to use and negatives for you to avoid.
Smartness
To write something, you have to put efforts on your brain and think. You force your brain to struggle and pull out ideas from deep inside your subconscious mind. Moreover, studies show that people who write by hand have increased cognitive activity and can actually be more intelligent. It is a good exercise for the brain.
Empathy
As a writer, you have to wear many hats. You have to think in the perspective of others. When writing constantly, you apply this technique in real life also. You understand the situation of other by putting yourself in their shoes. This helps you deeply understand the emotions and feelings of others.
Positive Nature
The world is cruel, and it criticizes the work of every person. Being a writer, you happily welcome criticizes and work on them so that you can avoid them in the future. You become positive to pick out the positives even from the negatives.
Mentally Healthy
Writers usually are found to be mentally healthy. It is because they pen down their frustrations and anger. This habit not only avoids the writer from getting involved in a dispute but also gives him time to relax, calm down and think about the situation with a cool mind.
Sense of accomplishment
When you write down something, be it a journal, a blog, a diary, or a book, it gives you a satisfactory sense that you have invested your time into something useful instead of wasting it away. You have a record to show something you have done for the day.
https://goo.gl/52FYG0
For people who have always wanted to improve themselves and become a better person, here is a way for you to do so. Just pick your pen or laptop and START WRITING. Yes, writing is a very good way to improvise you. If you are wondering how then we have the answer for that.
Discipline
Sports is a very good platform to improve discipline. But what about people who are not into sports. For those people, writing can be a very good option. Writing just for a few minutes every day can teach you patience and discipline. To write something you need to have a systematic approach, which reflects in your day to day life.
Gratitude
According to research, people who write down the good things of their life every week are found to be more motivated and positive. It helps people realize the value of everything they have got and not to take things for granted. By writing, you can understand your life.
Better reader
As a writer, you read the works of others with a keen interest to improve yourself. You do not read like a normal reader, you read, imply, and try to connect all possible dots of the content. You analyse the works of others, find the positive for you to use and negatives for you to avoid.
Smartness
To write something, you have to put efforts on your brain and think. You force your brain to struggle and pull out ideas from deep inside your subconscious mind. Moreover, studies show that people who write by hand have increased cognitive activity and can actually be more intelligent. It is a good exercise for the brain.
Empathy
As a writer, you have to wear many hats. You have to think in the perspective of others. When writing constantly, you apply this technique in real life also. You understand the situation of other by putting yourself in their shoes. This helps you deeply understand the emotions and feelings of others.
Positive Nature
The world is cruel, and it criticizes the work of every person. Being a writer, you happily welcome criticizes and work on them so that you can avoid them in the future. You become positive to pick out the positives even from the negatives.
Mentally Healthy
Writers usually are found to be mentally healthy. It is because they pen down their frustrations and anger. This habit not only avoids the writer from getting involved in a dispute but also gives him time to relax, calm down and think about the situation with a cool mind.
Sense of accomplishment
When you write down something, be it a journal, a blog, a diary, or a book, it gives you a satisfactory sense that you have invested your time into something useful instead of wasting it away. You have a record to show something you have done for the day.
https://goo.gl/52FYG0
20 Writing Tips from Fiction Authors
Writing success boils down to hard work, imagination and passion—and then some more hard work.
Use these tips as an inspirational guide—or better yet, print a copy to put on your desk, home office, refrigerator door, or somewhere else noticeable so you can be constantly reminded not to let your story ideas wither away by putting off your writing.
Tip1:
"My first rule was given to me by TH White, author of The Sword in the Stone and other Arthurian fantasies and was: Read. Read everything you can lay hands on. I always advise people who want to write a fantasy or science fiction or romance to stop reading everything in those genres and start reading everything else from Bunyan to Byatt." — Michael Moorcock
Tip 2:
"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you." — Zadie Smith
Tip 3:
"Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution." — Michael Moorcock
Tip 4:
"In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it." — Rose Tremain
Tip 5:
"Always carry a note-book. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever." — Will Self
Tip 6:
"It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction." — Jonathan Franzen
"Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet." — Zadie Smith
Tip 7:
"Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting." — Jonathan Franzen
Tip 8:
"Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK (prose rhythms are too complex and subtle to be thought out—they can be got right only by ear)." — Diana Athill
Tip 9:
"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." – Anton Chekhov
Tip 10:
"Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'" — Rose Tremain
Tip 11:
"Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money." — Jonathan Franzen
Tip 12:
"Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there's prayer. St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers, has often helped me out in a crisis. If you want to spread your net more widely, you could try appealing to Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, too." — Sarah Waters
Tip 13:
"The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement – if you can't deal with this you needn't apply." — Will Self
Tip 14:
"Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!" — Joyce Carol Oates
Tip 15:
"The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator." — Jonathan Franzen
Tip 16:
"Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. If you have the knack of playing with exclaimers the way Tom Wolfe does, you can throw them in by the handful." — Elmore Leonard
Writing success boils down to hard work, imagination and passion—and then some more hard work.
Use these tips as an inspirational guide—or better yet, print a copy to put on your desk, home office, refrigerator door, or somewhere else noticeable so you can be constantly reminded not to let your story ideas wither away by putting off your writing.
Tip1:
"My first rule was given to me by TH White, author of The Sword in the Stone and other Arthurian fantasies and was: Read. Read everything you can lay hands on. I always advise people who want to write a fantasy or science fiction or romance to stop reading everything in those genres and start reading everything else from Bunyan to Byatt." — Michael Moorcock
Tip 2:
"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you." — Zadie Smith
Tip 3:
"Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution." — Michael Moorcock
Tip 4:
"In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it." — Rose Tremain
Tip 5:
"Always carry a note-book. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever." — Will Self
Tip 6:
"It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction." — Jonathan Franzen
"Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet." — Zadie Smith
Tip 7:
"Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting." — Jonathan Franzen
Tip 8:
"Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK (prose rhythms are too complex and subtle to be thought out—they can be got right only by ear)." — Diana Athill
Tip 9:
"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." – Anton Chekhov
Tip 10:
"Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'" — Rose Tremain
Tip 11:
"Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money." — Jonathan Franzen
Tip 12:
"Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there's prayer. St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers, has often helped me out in a crisis. If you want to spread your net more widely, you could try appealing to Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, too." — Sarah Waters
Tip 13:
"The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement – if you can't deal with this you needn't apply." — Will Self
Tip 14:
"Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!" — Joyce Carol Oates
Tip 15:
"The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator." — Jonathan Franzen
Tip 16:
"Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. If you have the knack of playing with exclaimers the way Tom Wolfe does, you can throw them in by the handful." — Elmore Leonard
Tip 17:
"Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong." — Neil Gaiman
Tip 18:
"You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished." — Will Self
Tip 19:
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter." — Neil Gaiman
Tip 20:
"The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying ‘Faire et se taire’ (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as ‘Shut up and get on with it.’" — Helen Simpson
Even famous authors sometimes have a tough time with writing; they also go through periods of self-doubt. Despite this, they always manage to come up with the goods. So take a lesson from them and stop putting off your writing plans and get started on your publishing journey today.
There has never been a better time than now to realize your dream of becoming a published author. Let your voice be heard and let your story be told. Never let your passion for writing wane.
"Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong." — Neil Gaiman
Tip 18:
"You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished." — Will Self
Tip 19:
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter." — Neil Gaiman
Tip 20:
"The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying ‘Faire et se taire’ (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as ‘Shut up and get on with it.’" — Helen Simpson
Even famous authors sometimes have a tough time with writing; they also go through periods of self-doubt. Despite this, they always manage to come up with the goods. So take a lesson from them and stop putting off your writing plans and get started on your publishing journey today.
There has never been a better time than now to realize your dream of becoming a published author. Let your voice be heard and let your story be told. Never let your passion for writing wane.
The Banjo Player, by Fenton Johnson
There is music in me, the music of a peasant people
I wander through the levee, picking my banjo and singing my songs of the cabin and the field
At the Last Chance Saloon I am as welcome as the violets in March;
there is always food and drink for me there, and the dimes of those who love honest music
Behind the railroad tracks the little children clap their hands and love me as they love Kris Kringle
But I fear that I am a failure
Last night a woman called me a troubadour
What is a troubadour?
There is music in me, the music of a peasant people
I wander through the levee, picking my banjo and singing my songs of the cabin and the field
At the Last Chance Saloon I am as welcome as the violets in March;
there is always food and drink for me there, and the dimes of those who love honest music
Behind the railroad tracks the little children clap their hands and love me as they love Kris Kringle
But I fear that I am a failure
Last night a woman called me a troubadour
What is a troubadour?