Thought for the Day: "You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn’t matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over." ~ Leonard Bernstein ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends:… Continue reading Undercover Latina — Review
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Meant to Be — Review
Thought for the Day: “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”~ Pele ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: C. S. Lakin has a lot of great advice for writers, and this is no exception. HERE she… Continue reading Meant to Be — Review
Cress Watercress — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “It may be that when we no longer know what to dowe have come to our real work,and that when we no longer which way to gowe have come to our real journey.The mind that is not baffled is not employed.The impeded stream is the one that sings.”~ Wendell Berry ~… Continue reading Cress Watercress — Review & Giveaway
The View From the Very Best House in Town — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”~ Ayn Rand ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: We all need a little inspiration now and again. HERE Melissa Donovan on Writing Forward gives us 20 Fun and Inspiring Character Writing Ideas. Lisa Wilson-Hall… Continue reading The View From the Very Best House in Town — Review & Giveaway
Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen — Review & Giveaway
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
Double Review & Giveaway — The Genius Under the Table & Picturing a Nation
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
Franklin Endicott and the Third Key — Review
Thought for the Day: “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”~ Harriet Tubman ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Info-dumping is something all writers tend to do but shouldn’t. In fact, I just… Continue reading Franklin Endicott and the Third Key — Review
Sylvie — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.” ~ Brenda Ueland… Continue reading Sylvie — Review & Giveaway
Trowbridge Road — 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 Trowbridge Road — Review & Giveaway