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A personalized writing quote from lj Friend [livejournal.com profile] affinity8:

"The Second Cosmic Rule of Writing: Work With What You're Given. One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons by George Booth depicts a tormented, obviously "blocked" writer sitting at his typewriter, crumpled paper strewn about, surrounded literally by dozens of dogs-- napping, barking, hanging from the window sills, etc. The writer's wife stands in the doorway, glaring at him in weary fashion. 'Write about dogs,' she says."

(From Dennis Palumbo as excerpted in The New Writer's Handbook 2007)

UPDATE: and here's a link to the cartoon in question.

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