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Pandora’s Box – A Writer’s Kryptonite
I’ve since given up on Android Boxes, but oh, there is so much more available now…
This post breaks one of the cardinal rules of successful Blogging, that is –don’t write primarily about yourself. With millions of blogs to sift through, readers want something they can use, learn or benefit from. This is may not be that post.
Pardon me while I self indulge.
We’ve all faced that blank page.
Whether it’s a novel, script, article, or weekly blog post, reluctance to write versus initiative to create, is an epic battle. I’m not talking writer’s block specifically, more so the general dread of confronting that creative vacuum, especially when so many pleasant alternatives exist. Like folding laundry.
Five years ago I phased television out of my life. Not that I was an addict, but my writing regime suffered, runner-up to every menial task imaginable. Something had to go and television drew the short straw. For the next while TV was regulated to weekend movie…
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The Power of Positive Drinking
It’s the long weekend in Canada, so revisiting an old post on libations, seems appropriate. Happy Canada Day weekend!
It’s a well-documented fact that many revered authors were drinkers. Not teetotalers, but hardcore, slam-them-back, liver abusers. And aside from the moderation argument, is there anything outwardly wrong with that? The love of libation is not reserved for the creative elite, far from it, but the fascination with prominent figures, especially their quirks and idiosyncrasies, accentuates their vices, and often defines them.
The list of authors who drank reads like a who’s who of the literary world. As far back as Absinthe or ‘green fairy’ drinkers like Oscar Wilde, to more recent day spirituous writers like Kerouac, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Chandler, and Hemingway to name a few, all indulged. In common they were masters of their craft, lovers of the drink. But did they also share a mutual belief in the inspirational power of the cocktail?
Let’s first consider a few select quotes from the masters themselves, perhaps revealing a glimmer…
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