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
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My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!) — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “The trick is to pay attention to what you wrote – not whatyou THOUGHT you wrote.”~ David Lubar on fixing mistakes ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Janice Hardy again has a very useful post over at Fiction University. This one is on working with multiple point of view characters. Click… Continue reading My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!) — Review and Giveaway
Fatal Fever — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Sometimes I think I should just start a blog that does nothing but link to Janice Hardy’s… Continue reading Fatal Fever — Review and Giveaway
Anyone but Ivy Pocket — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Forget about inspiration. You won’t get anything done sitting around waiting for it to strike. Creativity is work. It requires discipline, tenacity, undeviating routine, and the total investment of both body and mind.”~ Twyla Tharp ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Guardian has a fun article HERE on the Top… Continue reading Anyone but Ivy Pocket — Review and Giveaway
Squeeze Play — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “I just give myself permission to suck. I delete about 90 percent of my first drafts … so it doesn’t really matter much if on a particular day I write beautiful and brilliant prose that will stick in the minds of my readers forever, because there’s a 90 percent chance I’m… Continue reading Squeeze Play — Review and Giveaway
The Perfect Place — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Remember, the villain is always the hero in his own story. Wanting to‘rule the world’ just to ‘rule the world’ is for cartoons.”~ Kristen Lamb ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: This isn’t the sort of thing I usually link, but I found a great site for people concerned about helping kids… Continue reading The Perfect Place — Review and Giveaway
Finding the Worm — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: ''I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.''~ Emily Dickinson ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: HEREis an interesting listing of Top Editing and Proofreading Tools for Creative Writers. Kathy Temean through… Continue reading Finding the Worm — Review and Giveaway
Watch the Sky — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been able to talk about. Be willing to be split open.” ~ Natalie Goldberg ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Does Janice Hardy ever run out of wonderful ideas for writers to strengthen their works? I think not. HERE is a… Continue reading Watch the Sky — Review and Giveaway
Like a River: A Civil War Novel — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour,before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities,to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.”~ H.W. Fowler, lexicographer ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Working on non-fiction or historical fiction? Kathy Temean has a great post by Erika… Continue reading Like a River: A Civil War Novel — Review and Giveaway
The Way to Stay in Destiny — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”~ Vladimir Nabokov ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Fiction University is always worth a look, but some posts are absolutely not to be missed. Janice Hardy… Continue reading The Way to Stay in Destiny — Review and Giveaway
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