Roxanne Barbour's Blog, page 26
October 4, 2012
Quotation – October 4, 2012
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have noting much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez
October 1, 2012
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #18 – Tourism
SciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.
SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and science fiction.
The poems are usually three lines and around 17 syllables.
Join me in exploring this field of poetry. Send your scifaiku to hyperlight@hyperwarp.com and I will feature them here. (subject: Scifaiku)
#18 - Tourism
The race to the Stars
Envigorated imagination
Tourism resulted.
via space.com
Quotation – October 1, 2012
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway
September 21, 2012
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #17 – Nuclear Winter
SciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.
SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and science fiction.
The poems are usually three lines and around 17 syllables.
Join me in exploring this field of poetry. Send your scifaiku to hyperlight@hyperwarp.com and I will feature them here. (subject: Scifaiku)
#17 - Nuclear Winter
Darkness smothered Earth
Most vegetation shriveled
And lifeforms chilled.
via Bing
Quotation – September 21, 2012
When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notesfor some time–20 years in the case of Imperial Earth, and 10 years in the case of the novel I’m presently working on. So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas. It’s amazing how the subconscious self works on these things. I don’t worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
Arthur C. Clarke
September 19, 2012
Quotation – September 19, 2012
I would rather my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.
Mark Twain
September 11, 2012
Quotation – September 11, 2012
Humour is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain
September 8, 2012
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #16 – The Mounds of Mars
SciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.
SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and science fiction.
The poems are usually three lines and around 17 syllables.
Join me in exploring this field of poetry. Send your scifaiku to hyperlight@hyperwarp.com and I will feature them here. (subject: Scifaiku)
#16 - The Mounds of Mars
Mounds of mystery
Robotic investigations
Enlightenment scarce.
via space.com
Quotation – September 8, 2012
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.
Henry Mitchell
September 7, 2012
Quotation – September 7, 2012
Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death — fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold , treacherous, constant.
Edna Ferber
