Write Time Response/Blog Hop/Follow Friday

Happy Friday, everyone! Sorry that this post is going up late in the evening. I was busy most of this morning, so I was only able to put up the blog hop buttons. Now onto the post!

As many of you may know, on Wednesday we talked about "When is the write time?" For those of you who didn't read the post, basically, the point was 'when is the right time to write?' In response to that post, I thought I would share with you something that my professor gave me this week. I thought it was oddly coincidental that he handed this quote out to our fiction workshop class on the same day I made my "When is the write time?" post. Are you reading this blog, Mark? If you are, make yourself known!

Anyways, this is what the quote said:

"You have to go to considerable trouble to live differently from the way the world wants you to live. That's what I've discovered about writing. The world doesn't want you to do a damn thing. If you wait til you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read--if you wait for the time, you'll never do it. Cause there ain't no time; world don't want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week"--Harry Crews

The more I think about this quote, the more right I think it is. Maybe there is no right time for anything. Maybe we just need to MAKE time for the things in life that are important to us. Food for thought.

While you're all thinking about that, remember to participate in this weekend's blog hop/follow friday. I'm headed off to figure out exactly how I'm going to make this much needed time. Til Monday! ;-)

"How do you spread the word about your blog?
(e.g. Social Networking sites, Book Blog Directories, comments on other blogs...)"

I do use some social networking sites to spread the word about the blog. I post links on my Facebook to reach out to my friends from school, people I know in my immediate area, etc. Twitter is where I reach out to the whole world wide web. I restrict my FB to people I've met in person and am friends with, but anyone can contact me on Twitter. I also have a Goodreads site that I'm trying to figure out how to work more lol.