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April is officially the month of writing, although unfortunately not the kind I look forward to. It’s that time of the semester, when the due dates of my final projects become a scary reality and I realize that I better start writing if I want a fighting chance of completing them on time. Along with that, a month of extreme stress and anxiety begins.
So in the spirit of mental preparation, here are some photos for motivation. The first is a picture I took of Charles Bukowski‘s typewriter, on display during a special exhibit titled “Charles Bukowski: Poet on the Edge” at the Huntington Library in San Marino.
Side note: If you, like many others, feel slightly uncomfortable at the thought of gawking at Bukowski’s personal items and seeing his face plastered on gift shop souvenirs in a slightly upscale, privately funded museum, let me redirect you to a blog post by my good friend Eric Aldrich. He encompasses the sentiment quite well here.
The rest of my motivation is simply more typewriter awesomeness.
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| “That typewriter is it. If I die, I hope I go with my head on that typewriter. It’s my battlefield.” -Charles Bukowski |
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| “Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.” -William Faulkner |
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| William Faulkner gets two pictures because a) he’s rad and b) he’s the subject of my first paper. |
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| “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” -Ernest Hemingway |
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| “I hate writing, I love having written.” -Dorothy Parker |
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>Thanks for the plug! Here's a Hemingway quote I really like – "A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."