tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44829488198302596192009-11-09T16:23:08.461-06:00Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.comBlogger137125http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~fc/FiveStarFriday?bg=FFCC33&amp;fg=000000&amp;anim=0FiveStarFridayhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-46146132490332689852009-11-06T08:31:00.002-06:002009-11-06T09:32:09.147-06:002009-11-06T09:32:09.147-06:00Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com3http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/11/five-star-fridays-edition-78.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-54765775332402685182009-10-30T10:13:00.003-06:002009-10-30T10:44:37.755-06:002009-10-30T10:44:37.755-06:00Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com7http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/10/five-star-fridays-edition-77.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-38839597134836910192009-10-23T10:26:00.003-06:002009-10-23T10:33:28.342-06:002009-10-23T10:33:28.342-06:00Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Mordecai Richler That Mordecai, always so sunny! Today's Five Star...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com7http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/10/five-star-fridays-edition-76.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-24294878975217786382009-10-16T10:34:00.002-06:002009-10-16T11:20:41.563-06:002009-10-16T11:20:41.563-06:00The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by the means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com6http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/10/five-star-fridays-edition-75.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-88033959506197759532009-10-09T09:18:00.003-06:002009-10-09T10:06:18.835-06:002009-10-09T10:06:18.835-06:00It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Joan Baez Now that summer is officially...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com9http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/10/five-star-fridays-edition-74.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-76851864178355473252009-10-02T12:30:00.000-06:002009-10-02T12:31:07.131-06:002009-10-02T12:31:07.131-06:00Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Harlan Ellison Your day is now dedicated to the...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com7http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/10/five-star-fridays-edition-73.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-45748059759034140252009-09-25T10:03:00.002-06:002009-09-25T10:06:57.780-06:002009-09-25T10:06:57.780-06:00Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; P. G. Wodehouse It is now incumbent upon you to put aside...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com5http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/09/five-star-fridays-edition-72.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-74763430767711402942009-09-18T11:41:00.006-06:002009-09-18T12:18:39.755-06:002009-09-18T12:18:39.755-06:00Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Is it just me, or does it seem like the further we get into autumn, the closer these Fridays seem...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com9http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/09/five-star-fridays-edition-71.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-5567004328842879152009-09-11T11:42:00.002-06:002009-09-11T11:43:53.455-06:002009-09-11T11:43:53.455-06:00If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Woody Allen We have 23 excellent weblog entries to read this week, and, as I exhort you to do every week, put aside your...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com14http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/09/five-star-fridays-edition-70.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-5106593362872134542009-09-04T11:07:00.002-06:002009-09-04T12:01:46.650-06:002009-09-04T12:01:46.650-06:00Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Monica Dickens Do you know what I say to that? Screw your bitterness,...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com11http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/09/five-star-fridays-edition-69.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-10905286925819044762009-09-01T08:29:00.010-06:002009-09-01T09:26:08.112-06:002009-09-01T09:26:08.112-06:00Okay, look. I am well aware that it is a Tuesday. I am also well aware that Five Star Friday did not happen on Friday. I have decided not to care about either. Due to last week's and this past weekend's avalanche of busy, I was unable to stick to...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com10http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/09/five-star-fridays-edition-68.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-63466419228429157512009-08-28T08:23:00.004-06:002009-08-28T08:25:57.148-06:002009-08-28T08:25:57.148-06:00Due to certain circumstances, such my shooting a wedding for twelve hours today, I will be romping through parks without internet for the better part of the day. Five Star Friday will have to become Five Star Saturday this week. See you tomorrow! <br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com1http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/08/public-service-announcement.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-59007299712672820562009-08-21T10:54:00.007-06:002009-08-21T11:29:18.195-06:002009-08-21T11:29:18.195-06:00And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Sylvia Plath You people outdid yourselves this...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com12http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/08/five-star-fridays-edition-67.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-82113813715839148212009-08-14T09:26:00.006-06:002009-08-14T21:43:30.216-06:002009-08-14T21:43:30.216-06:00Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Robin...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com12http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/08/five-star-fridays-edition-66.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-22749980113438782402009-08-07T10:28:00.002-06:002009-08-07T10:29:54.633-06:002009-08-07T10:29:54.633-06:00Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com18http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/08/five-star-fridays-edition-65.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-19368226115958936702009-07-31T10:03:00.004-06:002009-07-31T11:10:52.809-06:002009-07-31T11:10:52.809-06:00Your stuff starts out being just for you… but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Stephen...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com22http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/07/five-star-fridays-edition-64.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-40590871463047528292009-07-25T20:19:00.003-06:002009-07-25T20:27:05.014-06:002009-07-25T20:27:05.014-06:00Some of you may have noticed that Five Star Friday just didn't happen yesterday. There is a good reason for this: I am presently far away from my home base in Saskatchewan and am in Chicago at the BlogHer '09 conference. I have been in transit...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com0http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/07/five-star-friday-to-return-next-week.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-35414244603668059902009-07-17T09:38:00.001-06:002009-07-17T09:39:54.357-06:002009-07-17T09:39:54.357-06:00If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Steven Galloway 20 things are awesome about today &mdash; that's ALL your fingers and toes...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com8http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/07/five-star-fridays-edition-63.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-46490911691018606512009-07-10T10:36:00.004-06:002009-07-10T11:49:06.004-06:002009-07-10T11:49:06.004-06:00There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com22http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/07/five-star-fridays-edition-62.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-53343858606278997192009-07-03T13:22:00.007-06:002009-07-03T14:06:35.742-06:002009-07-03T14:06:35.742-06:00Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Lord Chesterfield In case you are new to Five Star Friday, this is a...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com3http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/07/five-star-fridays-edition-61.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-5579761851123509712009-06-26T12:33:00.001-06:002009-06-26T12:33:46.377-06:002009-06-26T12:33:46.377-06:00It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Anais Nin This week's roundup of...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com8http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/06/five-star-fridays-edition-60.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-8749590334572230722009-06-19T12:57:00.004-06:002009-06-19T13:56:03.218-06:002009-06-19T13:56:03.218-06:00I have no fancy quotations about writing with which to start off this week's Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog posts, just a note of appreciation. I don't know if it's the nice weather or my becoming a more positive person or the lack of...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com10http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/06/five-star-fridays-edition-59.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-50819989201758564712009-06-12T12:20:00.003-06:002009-06-12T13:01:17.453-06:002009-06-12T13:01:17.453-06:00Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. &mdash; Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Stop. Working. Right. Now. Grab a...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com3http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/06/five-star-fridays-edition-58.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-51921618168414637462009-06-05T10:00:00.002-06:002009-06-05T10:17:40.097-06:002009-06-05T10:17:40.097-06:00There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith This week's collection has had me both laughing bubbles into my coffee and wiping tears from my cheeks. ...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com10http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/06/five-star-fridays-edition-57.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482948819830259619.post-79963647617319685272009-06-02T07:00:00.001-06:002009-06-02T07:00:14.186-06:002009-06-02T07:00:14.186-06:00It is only a few months after we had the twins. We are driving down the freeway, to where I don't remember. Somehow the conversation has turned to the fact that we have only sons. "Well, you know, honey," I say to him, "We could always still adopt...<br/> <br/> Click on the title to view this week's full Five Star Friday roundup of good weblog reading. 10% of this website's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Five Star Friday is a donation to a worthy cause. Thank you!Schmutziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023867307505601913schmutzie@gmail.com0http://www.fivestarfriday.com/2009/06/child-of-my-dreams.html