These words are very special to me. I’ve been living by them in the last three years and the transformation is truly magnificent. We do need to simplify our lives and find meaning again.
This quote is more applicable to life in general than to writing – yet everyone can find its own meaning. Hemingway was a famous minimalist writer. Anyhow, the more you can simplify, the better – in my opinion 🙂
I’m about to reblog this to Write Through It, my blog on writing and editing. It’s so applicable to writing. When I’m editing my own work or the work of others, I often think “pruning” or “weeding.” I’m cutting back and clearing space so the important stuff comes through and (with a work in progress) keeps growing. That’s what I thought when I read this quote this morning. A poet I workshopped with many years ago talked about watching out for the “soft ice” in your work — the ice that won’t support your weight. That’s it too.
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this simplifies things for a lot of us..
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These words are very special to me. I’ve been living by them in the last three years and the transformation is truly magnificent. We do need to simplify our lives and find meaning again.
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great post my dear!!
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thanks 🙂
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your welcome
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But isn’t necessary subjective? So, it may be wordy for one but not to another?
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This quote is more applicable to life in general than to writing – yet everyone can find its own meaning. Hemingway was a famous minimalist writer. Anyhow, the more you can simplify, the better – in my opinion 🙂
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I agree about simplifying!
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I’m about to reblog this to Write Through It, my blog on writing and editing. It’s so applicable to writing. When I’m editing my own work or the work of others, I often think “pruning” or “weeding.” I’m cutting back and clearing space so the important stuff comes through and (with a work in progress) keeps growing. That’s what I thought when I read this quote this morning. A poet I workshopped with many years ago talked about watching out for the “soft ice” in your work — the ice that won’t support your weight. That’s it too.
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Great observation, thank you for sharing with us 🙂
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Reblogged this on Write Through It.
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