The Big Trout Sez…

At this moment all we know is all we have. And in the next moment we know a little more.

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Ducks fly upstream in the morning and downstream in the evening

…from The Secret Life of Ducks, Quacken Press

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Believing in yourself doesn’t guarantee you anything, but it promises you happiness.

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The Six Stages of a Project

  1. Wild Enthusiasm
  2. Total Confusion
  3. Disillusionment
  4. Search for the Guilty
  5. Punishment of the Innocent
  6. Promotion of the Non-Participants

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  • Bad News Is Good News
  • Good News Is No News
  • No News Is Bad News

… corporate customer service incentive slogan, 1992

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Don’t let perfection get in the way of good writing

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Poetry is the naked truth

Fiction wears socks

…with permission from author/poet/artist Nicky R.

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The only sure way to guarantee your creative work isn’t stolen or ’employed’ by the internet and, ultimately, AI, is to use a tablet and pen. A manual typewriter also works. — So, since the internet became a thing around 1996, have we come full circle?

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Sonia Contera, a physicist at Oxford University, says “There is something very special about the nanoscale. It is the scale that the universe chose to create life. It is a kind of bridge between the quantum world of waves and particles and the biological world of DNA and proteins.”

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Published by James W. White

fiction writer

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