The writer’s life requires<strong> </strong>
<h1 align="center"><strong>INSPIRATION and PERSERVERANCE</strong></h1>
When either of those wane for me, I pick up one of these books.

<em><strong>The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life</strong>, </em>by Julia Cameron
An inspiring challenge to just keep writing.

<em><strong>Bird by Bird</strong>, </em>by Anne Lamott<em>
</em>A funny, helpful book about what it is to be a writer. This book tells it like it is in a very entertaining way.<em></em>

<strong><em>The War of Art</em>, </strong>by Steven Pressfield
An incredible look at the barriers blocking our creativity. It's inspirational and funny.

Or I read one of these quotes.
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	<li> "Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well." ~Agatha Christie</li>
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	<li>“Don't worry about selling the story you wrote. Worry about writing a story that will sell itself.” ~Lawrence Watt-Evans</li>
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	<li>"Perseverance is trying 19 times and succeeding on the 20th."~Julie Andrews</li>
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	<li>“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” ~Henry Ford</li>
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And when things are bleakest, the one quote I read over and over and over:

“<em>Eventually you're going to reach the point where just one more attempt, one more effort will bring real success. What a shame it would be to give up just as you reached that point.</em>

<em>You do not know what the next effort will bring because the future is not based on the past. That feeling of wanting to give up is based solely on the past, which really doesn't matter anymore. What matters now is where you're headed, not where you've been. And when you view it from that perspective, <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#000000;text-decoration:underline;">giving up is simply not an option</span></span>.</em>” ~R. Marston