Thought for the Day: Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. ~ Giorgos Seferis, writer ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Melissa Donovan is going to tell you What Makes Iconic Characters Unforgettable HERE on Writing Forward. This is… Continue reading Because of the Rabbit — Review & Giveaway
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The Lost Girl — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” ~ Colette ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Christie Wright Wild offers classes in writing and… Continue reading The Lost Girl — Review & Giveaway
Tell Me Earth & Sky — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “A world without adjectives would still have the sun rising and setting, the flowers blooming, the trees bearing fruits, the birds singing, and the bees stinging.” ~ A.A. Patawaran ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: We all have writer’s block sometimes. The post HERE from The Mixed-Up Files of … Middle-Grade… Continue reading Tell Me Earth & Sky — Review & Giveaway
One Week of You — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michaelangelo ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Fae Rown has a good post HERE at Writers in the Storm that will… Continue reading One Week of You — Review & Giveaway
Fantastic Failures — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “I handed in a script last year and the studio didn’t change one word. The word they didn’t change was on page 87.” ~ Steve Martin ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Plot holes? No problem. The Writer’s Cookbook has advice from several writers HERE to help you fix those plot… Continue reading Fantastic Failures — Review & Giveaway
Whistling in the Dark — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.” ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Is your main character just waking up or having a dream or memory at the… Continue reading Whistling in the Dark — Review & Giveaway
Good Dog, McTavish & Little Lunch: Triple Treats — Double Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “A year from now you may wish you had started today." ~ Karen Lamb ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Louise Harnby has a terrific post HERE that will help you deal with accents in your writing. I wish I had found this one years ago! If you are looking for… Continue reading Good Dog, McTavish & Little Lunch: Triple Treats — Double Review & Giveaway
The Benefits of Being an Octopus — Review & Giveway
Thought for the Day: “The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Rebecca Lu Ella Miller at Rewrite, Reword, Rework has a terrific post with lots of good examples HERE on Show Don’t Tell. Time to start querying agents? The Writer Magazine has a good… Continue reading The Benefits of Being an Octopus — Review & Giveway
This Book Thinks You’re an Artist — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” ~ Any Warhol ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Cleaning up a manuscript? Need to cut some words?… Continue reading This Book Thinks You’re an Artist — Review & Giveaway
Carnival of the Animals — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Always be a poet, even in prose.” ~ Charles Baudelaire ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: This is kind of fun. A British professor tells us Why We Should Learn to Love the Full Stop HERE from Aerogramme Writers’ Studio. There is a great writing trick in this one. I linked… Continue reading Carnival of the Animals — Review & Giveaway
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