Don't get your hopes up. I wish this was an aptly titled blog about my life too. It's actually the title of the book I'm going to quote. I haven't been very original lately but I have been reading some great stuff. This is a quick snippet that so beautifully describes writing.
Getting the words right mattered, but so did describing his voice when he talked and capturing the feeling that filled her as he spoke and after he spoke. She thought about that word "capture," how it put a writer on par with a fur trapper or big-game hunter, and how it implied that stories were whole and roaming around loose in the world, and a writers job was to catch them. Except of course that a writer didn't kill what she caught, didn't stuff it and hang it on a wall; the point was to keep the stories alive.
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