“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ~ Anna Quindlen
Thought for the Day: "We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”~ Kurt Vonnegut ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: M. L. Davis has something HERE on Uninspired Writers all writers need to see. I am going to print this out and hang it in my office.… Continue reading Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to steer a project in the direction of the maximum fun for you. You could say lively energy, or you have to try to be intrigued. Basically, if you were… Continue reading The Insiders — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, then you find out who they really are.”~ Joss Whedon ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Janice Hardy has a guest post for Writers in the Storm HERE that will show you 5 Ways Your Story Hurts Your… Continue reading Kyle’s Little Sister — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too." ~ Isabel Allende ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Every year, Writer’s Digest puts out a list of the 101… Continue reading Linked — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.”~ Neil Gaiman ~… Continue reading Starfish — Review
Thought for the Day: "Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon.… Continue reading Double Review & Giveaway — The Genius Under the Table & Picturing a Nation
Thought for the Day: “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”~ Pablo Picasso ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Character descriptions are important but too much can get in the way. David Safford has a great post HERE from The Write Practice that has good tips and excellent… Continue reading The Beatryce Prophecy — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."~ Joyce Carol Oates ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Aaron Elkins has a… Continue reading Fighting Words — Review
Thought for the Day: “Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”~ Ray Bradbury ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: It’s important to describe our characters, but it's also important to do it in a way that doesn’t stop the story… Continue reading Amy McDougall, Master Matchmaker — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Fiction gives us empathy; it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”~ Neil Gaiman ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: September C. Fawkes has a really interesting… Continue reading The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise — Review & Giveaway
