Back on May 9, I channeled my inner Pride and Prejudice and opined that:

“It is a truth universally acknowledged — that the more point-of-view characters and settings a book contains, the bigger, and longer, it will be.”

Open for some serious writing business…

As a child, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame was a favourite read — and one of the more famous quotes from the book is Ratty’s view that:

“… there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as messing round in boats.”

Messing around in boats is a lot of fun, but I would paraphrase Ratty’s wisdom by saying that for a writer there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as being at your writing desk when the words are flowing and the path of story lies clear.

And although Zen wisdom warns against seeking to hold onto the moment, I cannot help hoping that the current following wind continues to favour me and the work-in-progress as long as may be required.

After which I too may emulate Ratty and spend some time messing round in boats. 😀

The path to the sea…

On another note, though, how cool is it that over 200 years and 100 years respectively since Pride and Prejudice and The Wind in the Willows were first published, I can still adapt quotes to my 21^st century experience? Very cool, I reckon!