“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ~ Anna Quindlen
Thought for the Day: “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.”~ Philip Pullman ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: The last thing any of us needs is boring characters. HERE is a great post on Creative Writing Now with Story… Continue reading GOOD DIFFERENT — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”~ Barbara Kingsolver ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Jan Fields… Continue reading TENMILE — Review
Thought for the Day: "I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read."~ Astrid Lindgren ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Nathan Bransford has some excellent suggestions HERE in his post How to Self-Edit Your Novel. Our characters have to… Continue reading Dogs Who Work: The Canines We Cannot Live Without — Review
Thought for the Day: "You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it."~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Some people know that I am a bit of a grammar Nazi. There are so many rules, and I… Continue reading HOME AWAY FROM HOME — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my… Continue reading HAZEL HILL IS GONNA WIN THIS ONE — Review
Thought for the Day: “Writing a novel is like a one-armed man trying to hammer together a chicken coop in a hurricane.”~ William Faulkner ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Marsh Cassady wrote a great article HERE for the Institute of Writing with 12 Writing Tips for Building Convincing Characters. I try really hard to… Continue reading THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”~ Henry Ford ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Lynn Cullen has an interesting article HERE in Writer’s Digest about something I’d never really thought about, but it’s important. In How To Acknowledge Uncomfortable Facts When Writing Historical Fiction, she… Continue reading OUR FRIEND HEDGEHOG: A PLACE TO CALL HOME — Review
Thought for the Day: “You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer.”~ Isaac Asimov ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Sometimes the Institute for Writers posts good articles online. HERE is their article on Setting as a Character. I hope you… Continue reading MEET ME HALFWAY — Review
Thought for the Day: “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down but the staying down.”~ Mary Pickford ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: HERE is a really good article from the Institute for Writers on Looking Through Your Character's Eyes.… Continue reading Haven: A Small Cat’s Big Adventure — Review
Thought for the Day: "Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you… Continue reading Detector Dogs, Dynamite Dolphins, and More Animals with Super Sensory Powers — Review
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