Thought for the Day: “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” ~ Ray Bradbury ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: K. M. Weiland has a list HERE of ten tools to make writers more efficient. Check it out. For… Continue reading All Four Stars — Review and Giveaway
Category: Ray Bradbury
Double Review and Giveaway — Leroy Ninker Saddles Up and Family Ties
Thought for the Day: “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something worth living for.”~ Ray Bradbury ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Pen & Muse… Continue reading Double Review and Giveaway — Leroy Ninker Saddles Up and Family Ties
Will in Scarlet — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.” ~ Ray Bradbury~Some Gifts for My Writer Friends: Barbara Krasner of The Whole… Continue reading Will in Scarlet — Review and Giveaway
A Review, An Interview, and a Giveaway – What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen
Thought for the day: “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.” ~ Ray Bradbury (We will miss you, Ray Bradbury!!)Some gifts for my writer friends. The following are links I think… Continue reading A Review, An Interview, and a Giveaway – What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen
Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do."A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at… Continue reading Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ray Bradbury Sure Got it Right
I’ve been doing some substitute teaching the last couple of weeks at a continuation high school (a last chance school for those who don’t find success at the regular high school). I like subbing. It keeps me around teenagers, keeps me in touch with their interests, their language, their problems – all things helpful in… Continue reading Ray Bradbury Sure Got it Right