Monthly Archives: March 2014

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“The Prize” (Grand): A Tribute to Ernest Hemingway

http://seedsofhatetobondsoflove.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/the-prize-a-tribute-to-ernest-hemingway/

“THE PRIZE”: A TRIBUTE TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899 – 1961)

These are my notes (in point form) I took from an excellent documentary on the life of the great American writer; so am sharing. Enjoy…

Firstly, some thoughts on his unique style, which revolutionized literature…

From http://craigswritingarticles.wordpress.com and
http://seedsofhatetobondsoflove.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/the-prize-a-tribute-to-ernest-hemingway/

PPS
Also see http://raceinthezone.wordpress.com

Writing in the Zone

https://raceinthezone.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/writing-in-the-zone-2/

Writing “In The Zone”

“This happens when finding the right words is no longer a struggle. Words simply flow into your head faster than you can write them down (or press the keyboard). You read what you have just written and say: “Bloody hell. That’s good. Did I really write that? Wonder where all that came from.”
– A “nony-moose” writer
click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPZ5CY9KoM

HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS MORE COMMENTS OVERNIGHT ( many tens of thousands already)… so THANKS for the THANX

Hi

HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS MORE COMMENTS OVERNIGHT ( many tens of thousands already)
so having to remove some to “make space in cyberspace”

Firstly, thanks for the feedback to you all, and this article and web site has really “seemed to have struck a chord” with so many of you “out there in cyberspace.”. However, it also means that I’m being swamped by “spam mail” (nearly all of the comments are great). For the +-.001% of negative comments about layout or spelling, that’s fine… and you’re perfectly entitled to your opinion (I just do my very best with my limited time).

So unfortunately, I can’t go through the hundreds and hundreds of messages (and many hundreds of thousands of comments on my various other WordPress web sites) that I get each day and have to “simply empty the “spam” box (not really spam) after quickly reading as many as I can.
Still I’m pleased you readers are enjoying these thoughts (why I write) and I do APPRECIATE the feedback. Will try to read as many responses as I can and approve a few each day (seeing you’ve taken the “trouble” to write in and say ‘thanks’). I really DO appreciate the positive feedback – the reason I write my various articles and books (at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock and http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4) is to share

To answer a few questions (as mentioned) I’m “snowed under”, so sorry, don’t have resources as a “one man band” to answer you individually)

* I don’t have time to look at other web sites or comment on design (I know nothing about that. To the few who are complaining about the occasional spelling mistake, Have your heard of British English! Also I “don’t major in minor details”.
”Man invented language in order to satisfy his need to complain.”
– Canadian linguist Steven Pinker

* All my articles may be freely reproduced (sorry don’t have time write for other websites), as I’m busy writing a few books at the moment
* If you clicked on contact and you keep on getting mail (or something like that) I know NOTHING, so contact WordPress admin (support@wordpress.com/and/or help@wordpress.com mailto:help@wordpress.com . I put most of my focus into my books, so have no idea how to add sound, video, etc to the blog.

* please feel free to link to the web site or my other wordpress blogs at http://craigsblogs.wordpress.com should you wish, but I have no time to do links

* You may not believe this, but I’m a “total non-techno”, so know, NOTHING about web site design, feeds, etc. And lay-out is not one of my strong points. I just write and post on the blog! How I got am where I am is a “miracle” . And no one would believe the story (only those who have true faith)! BELIEVE it (first) … then you’ll see it!
“Believing is seeing.”
(BEFORE the event)

* I don’t have a newsletter to subscribe to (as I simply don’t have the time)

* Will try to post articles from time to time, but all my writings are available at http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/user/15565 and http://www.ideamarketers.com/library/profile.cfm?writerid=981
(Personal growth, self help, writing, internet marketing, spiritual, ‘spiritual writings’ (how ‘airey-fairey’), words of inspiration. Please feel free to use

Thanks again for the understanding

craig

PS: Perhaps someone with more time and technical talents than than me could SET UP A BLOG or FORUM with WordPress to discuss the issues raised and take comments???

The various books that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4and http://www.creativekiwis.com/amazon.html

If the Lord makes you successful, I’ll keep you humble (…by shopping sprees?)!”
– a wife (I won’t say whose!)

PPS
thanks for the understanding and I DO really appreciate your “writing in”

“Thanks for the thanks”

“When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith, hope and love be the wings that carried you there.”
– as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former minister in New England, Massachusetts

“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
– craig

Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.
craig 11/11/11

from www.grandprixchampion.wordpress.com

“Total non-techno” craig at 2am!

Time to sleep now… then back to my books in the morning

PPS:
Don’t worry about the world ending today…
it’s already tomorrow in “little” scenic and tranquil New Zealand

“Life is God’s novel; so let Ultimate Source write it, as it unfolds…”

– me (as inspired by the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer)

“Here was a light behind the despair, beyond the darkness. At first a flicker of an ember, just a tiny pin-prick of dawning possibilities. Then burning slowly, brightly and bigger, a glimmer, a candle in the blackness of despair, which gave off just enough of a glow (luminescence?) to light a path. And so show the rest of us the way ahead… a path to endless possibilities…from the darkness into the eternal light.”

as adapted (slightly) from Rian Malan’s powerful words in ‘My Traitor’s Heart’

How to Write a “F…lipp’n Good” Novel: How YOU can write that great novel, the one that lies deep within you

novel

http://www.amazon.com/How-Write-lippn-Good-Novel/dp/1490356592/

The various books that Craig “felt inspired to write” (including his various books on writing and publishing) are available at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
https://www.createspace.com/3779691 http://goo.gl/vTpjk and http://www.creativekiwis.com/amazon.html
‘Publishing for Dummies’: How to Write and Publish an Electronic Book (e-book) is available at http://www.amazon.com/Publishing-Dummies-Electronic–book-ebook/dp/B006KRSNM4

All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children – MINE

What’s the definition of an aspiring author?
A waiter!

What’s the difference between a writer and a family pizza?
The pizza can feed a family of four!