I managed to write 905 words of world-building for Searoyal last night, if you count the stuff I typed in from my notes the other day. Not really spectacular, and I need a lot more words if I’m going to meet my goals for the Writers’ Challenge at Dreaming in Ink, but hey, it’s something.

Fairy tales don’t teach children that monsters exist.
Children already know that monsters exist.
Fairy tales teach children that monsters can be killed.
– G. K. Chesterton

This tremendous quote was in an email Holly Lisle received from a mailing list subscriber, and I couldn’t resist posting it (especially as it’s Inklings-related).

“If you don’t risk being garish, you risk being bland.” - Monica Wood, The Pocket Muse

Because I need to get cracking on the outline, a quote from Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous:

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.
- Lester Bangs, Almost Famous

Sometimes you have to write the one that gives you sugar.
- Elizabeth Bear

Now if only one of mine would give me some. :P

The goddess hath bidden the Nymphs assemble in the myrtle grove. Her boy accompanies them; but Love cannot be trusted as a harmless associate in the festival if he carries his arrows. Go, Nymphs! Love has laid aside his arms. He is harmless. Yet, Nymphs, beware, for Cupid is beautiful. Love is all armed, even when he is naked.
–Catullus

(via robertagellis.com)