Soulful Scribbler Gifts

A Winter's Day by Mary Lou Fleckner

"I've decided to cut out the middleman and self-publish."

"So start throwing together about 10 novels a week and bring them in on Wednesdays."

"How about we write a song combining Brexit with unrequited love?"

I'm currently working on my autobiography. Would you care to help make page 327 interesting?

'After three years of writer's block, I began writing about writer's block.'

"Regarding your letter of next Monday ... "

'Hows it coming?'

'Are you sure this is the only way to get rid of your writers block?'

'Your poetry totally captures the raw, primitive essence of the writing workshops you've attended.'

"Bible studies class? We're still writing it."

"I would take out the curse words, but otherwise I think it's fine."

Anna Burns

'He's just come back from a 'stress management' course.'

Writer's Block

A pen spewing letters

"No wonder you're struggling with your novel. You're not wearing your writer's hat."

"Baldo, it's great that you want to draw editorial cartoons for the school paper. But effective cartoons comment on important issues. They are not a forum for your personal agenda."

"It's an unfinished Wordle."

Must be old-timers – You don't see cursive anymore.

"That laptop was expensive as hell but publishers are still rejecting my stories! I want my money back!"

Woman writer writing romantical about writing on her unromantic computer

John Bolton

Commandments block.

False joviality.

Monk with a crucifix pen.

The Poet

Scribbling Rivalry.

Why written forms of expression weren't developed sooner.

"I imagine the men who wrote the Bible giggled every time they wrote 'I am the lord'."

"But I have a hard time calling this real writing."

Roy Fuller.

"Before I went on antidepressants I had a better sense of how mediocre my writing was."

'Alvin writes poetry...he he has a great imagination...He imagines someone will actually read that Junk!'

"We're practicing our bad penmanship. In case we want to become doctors some day."