GITS is Awesome!!!

Again, it's been quite awhile since I've offered a new post. I'm sure it's not relevant to anyone other than myself or family.But I'm still here writing and learning and living. Recently I was inclined to write a guest article or review of "The Getaway" for Scott Myers' site Go Into The Story: without a doubt the best source for all things "writing" be it screenplays, novels, whatever. The answer is still Just Write It!!! I know, it is difficult. But if this is what you choose, than just do it!!
I recently purchased "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" by Larry W. Phillips. Very good read. The real dope from someone with "modest success". Whether you like him or not, he was influential to the idea of the novel. He pretty much hated movies. Fitzgerald, Hammett, and Faulkner all got suckered into writing for the movies with varied results. Not him. But I did learn some things from him in the book. I read almost the whole thing in a morning over coffee! The entries are mainly from letters to people but some were from his days as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. Here's a few to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

"I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world---or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out thin ."

" In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is because there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new."

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."

This is the kind of stuff you get in Scott Myers' site, only filled with dozens of other insights, articles, facts, and current events. I do not know how the man finds time to DO all this and still write, but I know he does. It's like hanging out with other writers with out the bull shit. Anyway check it out!