It’s around 6:00 p.m. Saturday and I’m stretched out on my back on the sofa with two pillows under my head and pen and paper in hand. The television is mute, broadcasting Fox Saturday Baseball: The Marlins and The Mets. I’ve eaten several bite-size Milky Way Candy Bars.
Several tapes of foreign films checked out from the main branch of the public Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh sit on the cluttered low table next to the sofa and underneath the table are three books also checked out from the library: The Sun Also Rises and The Torrents of Spring by Hemingway and Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is amazing that after all these years I still read the same authors over and over again.
Out the window it’s just finished raining but the lingering clouds are much brighter. They are so much brighter that I make a momentous decision.
Tomorrow I will clean the bathroom.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out
Writers, be careful about what you read…
Hello hello hello, my brother and sister bloggers and writers. It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh. I’ve already been out for a long walk this morning but now it’s only 2:30 p.m. and I’ll probably go for another walk before the day is done.
Walking helps to keep the Old Soldier physically fit the same way reading good writing keeps a writer mentally fit.
I’m re-reading Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald again. I’ve probably read this collection of short stories a dozen times over the years and I’ll keep reading it.
Why?
Because I know it’s excellent writing.
If a writer makes a habit of reading average writing…Need I say more?
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