Good morning. Having an extra day before the start of the week is kind of useful. But it does now feel like Monday, doesn’t it? How was your long weekend, my writers?

I am opening this post so that through the week, I can add to it as I find tidbits I want to share. The internet can be a great time suck, but it can also be a marvelous treasure hunt. Work quickly and take what you need. Be a writing pirate. Please share your own finds in the comments. My best find this morning:

“If you’re going to write, don’t pretend to write down. It’s going to be the best you can do, and it’s the fact that it’s the best you can do that kills you.” Dorothy Parker

Writing Prompt: Write for five minutes about what would save your life right now. What do you most need to see, hear, know? Who do you need to talk with (living, dead, long dead or imagined)? What truths do you need to undo, what lies do you need to repudiate, what matters? Create an explosion (or a bouquet) of images, fragments of scene, lines of dialog. Consider this a love poem to your writer. Now, write your next scene.

Link: Here’s a wonderful piece about historical fiction and what it can and should do, about the tension at the line between truth and fiction, via the brilliant writer and BWW member James Black: http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_essays/caught_telling_fiction.php