Thought for the Day:“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” ~ Mark Twain ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:You never know what you will find on writing blogs. I have a LOT of trouble sleeping — getting to sleep, staying asleep, getting back to sleep if I wake up in… Continue reading The Seventh Most Important Thing — Review and Giveaway
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Lost in the Sun — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” ~ William Faulkner ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Janice Hardy has a guest post by James Tuck on her Fiction University blog HERE that will give you tips… Continue reading Lost in the Sun — Review and Giveaway
Random Body Parts — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't beenwritten yet, then you must write it."~ Toni Morrison ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Through the Tollbooth has a very useful post HERE on writing from the antagonist’s point of view. It’s worth your time. Writer’s Helping Writers… Continue reading Random Body Parts — Review and Giveaway
Hero by Sarah Lean — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last worddown and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on andleaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.”~ John Steinbeck ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writer’s Digest has an excellent article… Continue reading Hero by Sarah Lean — Review and Giveaway
Moonpenny Island — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.”~ Hart Crane ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Revising? Check out the post HERE from Fiction University about slashing word count. Thinking of using song lyrics or a… Continue reading Moonpenny Island — Review and Giveaway
Nanny X — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right thefirst time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better,find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."~ Robert Cormier ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: If you are writing historical fiction, the Writer’s… Continue reading Nanny X — Review and Giveaway
My Cousin’s Keeper — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“A children’s story which is enjoyed only by children isa bad children’s story.”~ C.S.Lewis ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Aerogramme Writer’s Studio has a post HERE on revision called Polish Your Prose: An Editorial Cheat Sheet. It’s good. Writer’s Digest published a great article by Elizabeth Sims HERE on how to add… Continue reading My Cousin’s Keeper — Review and Giveaway
The Secrets of Tree Taylor — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse… Continue reading The Secrets of Tree Taylor — Review and Giveaway
Guilty? Crime, Punishment and the Changing Face of Justice — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.” ~Herman Melville ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writer’s Digest is starting off the New Year with 50 Articles on Writing to Help You in 2015. Something for everyone HERE. Janice Hardy at Fiction University starts the New Year HERE with a… Continue reading Guilty? Crime, Punishment and the Changing Face of Justice — Review and Giveaway
Ghostly Evidence — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” ~ George Orwell ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: One of the critique groups… Continue reading Ghostly Evidence — Review and Giveaway
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