“To begin with, you must teach the unconscious to flow into the channel of writing. Psychologists will forgive us for speaking so airily about “teaching” the unconscious to do this or that. To all intents and purposes that is what happens; but less elegantly and more exactly we might say that the first step towards being a writer is to hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.”
Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer
Willamette Writers Conference 2014 Registration Open!
Just so you know, registration for the Willamette Writers Conference 2014 (AKA, the best writers conference west of the Mississippi) is open!
And I don’t know if it’s the best west-of-the-Mississippi writers conference for sure or not. It just sounds good. But it’s definitely the best first-weekend-of-August-west-of-the-Mississippi writers conference.
I can’t begin to say how much I love this conference.
Granted, as current president of Willamette Writers, I’m definitely biased. However, I also think of this conference as one of the happiest places on earth, and I thought that years ago.
Washington DC 1920s Maps
Reason # 27 why I heart the Internet:
The maps. Oh, the maps…
Map of Washington DC from 1892 from the Engineer Corps
Washington DC streetcar map from 1891
Baltimore and Ohio train map of Washington DC, dated 1936
A Bird’s Eye View of Washington DC from 1929
The Mall and Vicinity of Washington DC, dated 1917
Especially the one featured from Washington DC in the 1920s. It’s from a survey done by “G. Wm. Baist, Wm. E., & H.V. Baist, surveyors” and is amazing.
