GREENWICH PEN WOMEN - Arts, Letters, Music, Creativity

  “Don't romanticize your “vocation." You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no “writer's lifestyle." All that matters is what you leave on the page.”   ~~ Zadie Smith

  “The first sentence can be written only after the last sentence has been written. FIRST DRAFTS ARE HELL. FINAL DRAFTS, PARADISE.”   ~~ Joyce Carol Oates

                              "Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”  — Henri Matisse

  May 2021: “Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they’ll know it too.”   ~~ Esther Freud

  “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.  . .”  ~~ Sarah Waters

Your take-out food containers can be recycled as handy storage places for your tubes of paint. Label each container have its own color range, i.e., reds, greens, etc.

When buying a new tube of paint: Open the tube and lubricate the grooves by putting a little petroleum jelly on them. Twist cap back and forth a couple of times. No more sticking caps.