Thought for the Day:"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." ~ Ray Bradbury ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:I don’t know if you receive message from the Universe each day in your email, but I do. Sometimes they are the perfect kick-in-the-pants… Continue reading The Slowest Book Ever — Review and Giveaway
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Unbound — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.” ~ J.B. Priestley, author ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends:The Group Blog has a good post HERE with great reminders about Active vs. Passive sentences. Making the change can help get rid of extra words. Just sayin’. Alex Limberg did a guest post… Continue reading Unbound — Review and Giveaway
The Thing About Leftovers — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“I like to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.” ~ Stephen King ~`Gifts for My Writer Friends:HERE you will find a character name generator. This could save a lot of time. Writers Helping Writers has a terrific post HERE on finding story holes. Check it out. Sandra Havriluk has a… Continue reading The Thing About Leftovers — Review and Giveaway
Dinosaur Dictionary for Kids — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:Just because it cracked me up. “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Adventures in YA Publishing is reposting a good… Continue reading Dinosaur Dictionary for Kids — Review and Giveaway
Chasing Secrets — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consistsof writing or thinking about writing. ~ Eugene Ionesco ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:The post HERE from the Teaching Authors blog on female protagonists is FASCINATING and should be read by everyone who writes for young people. The devil is in the details and… Continue reading Chasing Secrets — Review and Giveaway
Ida B — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tellmyself that I’m going to do my five or ten pages no matter what, and thatI can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lostnothing — writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no… Continue reading Ida B — Review and Giveaway
More #MGGetsReal and a Fabulous GIVEAWAY!!!
Thought for the Day:“All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.” ~ Chuck Close, painter ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:My blogging buddy Greg Pattridge from Always in the Middle was kind enough to forward a link all about writing body language. He found useful and so do I, so I will… Continue reading More #MGGetsReal and a Fabulous GIVEAWAY!!!
A Visit from Shannon Wiersbitzky
Thought for the Day:“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.” ~ Paul Theroux ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Getting the details right is so important. HERE are some good resources and tips from Marianne Knowles at Writers’ Rumpus to help you out. Janice Hardy always has important posts. This is no exception. HERE she… Continue reading A Visit from Shannon Wiersbitzky
The Girl in the Well is Me — Review
Thought for the Day:"If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once." ~ Tana French ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Authors Publish has a post HERE by Emily Harstone that lists 25 publishers who accept submissions without an agent. This is worth looking… Continue reading The Girl in the Well is Me — Review
Mayday — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”~ Boris Pasternak ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Maybe the best two minutes you will spend this month can be found HERE. Anne R. Allen’s Blog has a must-read post that is full of links to help… Continue reading Mayday — Review and Giveaway
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