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Alana Joli Abbott ([personal profile] alanajoli) wrote2008-12-27 10:37 pm
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Hail from sunny Colorado! (plus a quote of the day)

We've been having an excellent time here in the Mile High City thus far--we visited the zoo, walked around 16th St. Mall, and spent a lot of time with family. I'm keeping busy between events doing the work that I managed to bring along--as I told a friend recently, as a freelance writer, your boss just never gives you a day off...

One of the projects I'm working on had a bunch of great information about the medieval Muslim world, and contained some great quotes from early scholars. So, in lieu of a long entry, here's a quote of the day. Hope you're all having a wonderful end of 2008!

"Prevention of the child from playing games and constant insistence on learning deadens his heart, blunts his sharpness of wit, and burdens his life."
- Al-Ghazali, 11th century Persian scholar and mystic

[identity profile] ilianna76.livejournal.com 2008-12-28 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Love the quote! Hope you are getting inspired :)

[identity profile] stormywriting.livejournal.com 2008-12-28 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Love that quote. Some parents I know could use that.

[identity profile] lyster.livejournal.com 2008-12-28 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ditto on the "never a day off" thing. It's kind of great, though - 'Oh, story done - on to the next project!' At least I'm never bored.

Outside of fiction & rpgs, what kind of writing work do you do? I'm looking to expand my work a little but don't know what's out there.