Thought for the Day: “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~ Albert Schweitzer ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I really like the feature Writer’s Digest has now and then showing successful query letters and what about… Continue reading Around the World in 50 Ways – Review & Giveaway
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Three Times Lucky — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. Youget ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and otherpeople is we notice when we're doing it." ~ Neil Gaiman ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:The Writer Magazine has a good article HERE on using visualization and immersion in making your… Continue reading Three Times Lucky — Review and Giveaway
Ashes to Asheville — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.” ~ Brenda Ueland ~Gifts for My Writer… Continue reading Ashes to Asheville — Review and Giveaway
Jabber-Walking — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~ Henry Ford ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Steven Pressfield always has something important to say. The post HERE on resistance is no exception. I recently came through the mother of all writer blocks, and I have a critique partner who has been having… Continue reading Jabber-Walking — Review and Giveaway
Brave Red, Smart Frog — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat.This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little likemurdering children, but it must be done." ~ Stephen King ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:We are lucky… Continue reading Brave Red, Smart Frog — Review and Giveaway
My Weird School Fast Facts Explorers, Presidents, and Toilets — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Somebody asked me: 'What do you do? How do you write, create?' You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: 'not' to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait… Continue reading My Weird School Fast Facts Explorers, Presidents, and Toilets — Review & Giveaway
Mrs. Master is a Disaster — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move.” ~ Edgar Cayce ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Have you ever heard of the First Person Plural point of view? I never had until I read the essay HERE from Aerogramme Writer’s Studio. Fascinating. I suspect we will be… Continue reading Mrs. Master is a Disaster — Review and Giveaway
Women Who Dared — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” ~ Michael Phelps ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Jane Friedman has a wonderful post HERE on How to Immediately Improve Your Query Letter’s Effectiveness. Adventures in YA Publishing has some good, instructive posts. The post HERE will help you Strengthen… Continue reading Women Who Dared — Review and Giveaway
Wicked Bugs — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”~ Bertold Brecht ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Literary agent Rachel Stout has a great guest post HERE on Nathan Branford’s blog about how to personalize a query. This is an important post. Stuart Horowitz wrote a guest… Continue reading Wicked Bugs — Review and Giveaway
Applesauce Weather — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arenaand not on the sidelines." ~ The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Janice Hardy again. This time she discusses Story Questions and it’s a good one. Click HERE to read it. Anything to make our characters… Continue reading Applesauce Weather — Review and Giveaway
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