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Date Posted: Sun, April 10 2022, 21:16:14
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Monday, April 11, 2022

The following quote is from The Outlandish Companion (Revised and Updated), by Diana Gabaldon, “Prologue.” Copyright © 1999, 2015 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

“At this point in my life, I had a full-time job with the university, I was writing part-time for the computer press, and I had three children, ages six, four, and two. I’m not sure quite why I thought this was the ideal time to begin writing my long-intended novel—mania induced by sleep deprivation, perhaps—but I did.
I didn’t intend to show this putative novel to anyone. It wasn’t for publication; it was for practice. I had come to the conclusion—based on experience—that the only real way of learning to write a novel was probably to write a novel. That’s how I learned to write scientific articles, comic books, and software reviews, after all. Why should a novel be different?”

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[> For years my “stop the life crazies” time has been walking the dogs in the woods. Like the postmen: neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet……..” I have the right clothes and I take that hour. It just hit me that Diana’s escape was her being able to practice her art - and did it ever reach so many of us. After reading yesterday’s quote all I could think of was Thank God, Thank God, Thank God that Diana’s gift and grace is her writing. -- Kathy in PA, Mon, April 11 2022, 3:53:27


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[> Quote from Aristotle, “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” -- DianaH, Mon, April 11 2022, 10:12:48


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