Megan's Blog City Journal

Optimism, Achievement, Gentle Gleam

BCOF Prompt: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." Snow asked if we agree with this statement.

Optimism, hope and faith are important as we try to achieve goals and make plans for our future and do the best we can. Negative attitudes get us no where. I don't like the word optimism but we need positive thoughts, faith and good things as we get through our lives. It is always nice to think positive and pray and hope for the best.

Blog City Prompt: Joy says Tolstoy tells writers to shine with a gentle gleam. How does this apply to writing?

I am not sure. I guess we need to do our best at writing and it will shine and speak to readers. A gentle gleam? I guess we need to be gentle with our characters but sometimes, our characters are bad and the heroes have to have a gentle gleam. Our heroes need to shine and be victorious. I read "War and Peace" and that is not a gentle novel. Writers need to write a good novel and make it shine and have a gentle gleam.