Saturday, March 27, 2010

Hello, I must have been going....

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. - Raymond Chandler

I found the above quote when I was looking for something that sounded cool in my Facebook status or Twitter....Twit. That's not the one I picked. I picked a quote that would have come across as awesome when Robert Mitchum said it in a pithy inner monologue when he wasn't making cool metaphors involving Los Angeles weather.
I bring it up only because I have done more writing in the last year than I have in past ten, on a daily basis, for an audience that more often than not has seemed appreciative. And I've enjoyed it. Even at under 460 characters at a shot on Facebook or 140 or something on Twitter, it is a page.
Nearly every great quote from nearly every great author could probably fit into the same space. Get enough of them, wham, you got a book. Thus I challenge myself to fill a larger space on a more regular basis. I'll try to keep it, or at least try hard to get it to interesting. The game is afoot.
Three-two-one go.