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
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!!!
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
Aim — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to myliterary thinking all my life.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Angela Ackerman has a good one HERE called Let’s Get Sensory: Powering Scenes Using the 5 Senses. Dr. John Yeoman has a fun and useful post HERE called How… Continue reading Aim — Review and Giveaway
Counting by 7s — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.”~ Holly Goldberg Sloan ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Tired of your characters all sounding alike. Kathy Temean at Writing and Illustrating has a good post HERE on giving your characters unique voices.Angela Ackerman did a great gust post HERE on 5… Continue reading Counting by 7s — Review and Giveaway
Orbiting Jupiter — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have… Continue reading Orbiting Jupiter — Review and Giveaway
Nanny X Returns — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“The writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than simply to reveal to them the infinite possibilities of their own souls.” ~ Walt Whitman ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Steven Pressfield has some great stuff on his blog. HERE, HERE, and HERE you will find a three-part series on making your hero… Continue reading Nanny X Returns — Review and Giveaway
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