The Hemingway Push

2012-05-31T15:01:00.000-07:00

I was watching Hemingway and Gellhorn. Outstanding performance by Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman. Trust me this won’t be a movie review. But while watching the movie I was motivated to write. I mean my hands were itching, my brain was moving a mile a minute about my books!

Watching the movie, I felt so compelled. What if Hemingway were my mentor?

First, I might be a bit scared. If Owen portrayed Hemingway to the exact T (and thumbs up because I know he did!), I would be scared out of my mind. Then, that sacredness would wash away and my heart would be beating. I was pumped up during his rant to Gellhorn about writing, at the semi-beginning of the movie. Just as I am now.

First rule Hemingway gave was to “sit down at your typewriter and bleed”. If you really work with these words and want to be a writer then you know that you have to give writing your all; through the pain and the joy of writing about characters.

Secondly, he said writing is a sport. “Get in the ring….start throwing punches for what you believe in.” Writers must have some type of faith base. A belief system that allows authors to get those creative juices flowing. Remember, my site is about ‘books that you can take to bed’. As I strive to read and write these books I need a mentality for believing in these books. While reading a book, if I don’t feel it, then to be honest, I will stop. Or writing, if I don’t believe what I’m writing, I’m doing myself a injustice. I will have just wasted months out of my life. Who wants to read a book where they don’t feel the author has made an investment? Where the reader is uncertain if the author really knows what he or she is talking about? I have to “get in the ring,” metaphorically. Throw punches. I’ll call Microsoft Word my punching bag, and I don’t mean that in an abusive way. I love Microsoft Word it makes my life easy. Sure it tells me when I can’t spell something and I know I’m not the best at grammar—which you can see now, if you are. But, what I mean is, I have to give it my all as I type/ ‘bleed’, if you get my drift.

Lastly, Owen as Hemingway said, “The best writers are liars,” and I was nodding my head while he did. That is so true. I’ve taken his pushy words and his bossiness toward Gellhorn and used it as a grain of inspiration for today.

My question is: what pushes you?

2012-05-26T16:29:00.002-07:00

I have decided to begin a blog about books that I read. I love to read a good book that takes me to another time or another place. Somewhere I haven't been before or even somewhere I have; but most importantly, I like to feel a connection with the books that I read. If you like to root for characters and love the twists and turns in the plot that reading a GOOD book provides, then you're in the right spot. Hopefully we can make this cozy book time a time were we can curl up on our beds or couch and just get lost....

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The Hemingway Push