“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: "There's no need to plan everything out beforehand. Part of the fun is setting up high stakes without knowing the outcome. This way you'll be right there with your protagonist, struggling to come up with solutions, even as the walls close in deliciously around you." —Julia Bartz from "Writers on Writing"… Continue reading JUST KEEP WALKING — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.”~ Ray Bradbury ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: This is something I think a lot of writers struggle with, especially with today's climate in publishing, so when I found the post HERE… Continue reading WILD RIVER — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart -- your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were… Continue reading HANGABOUT: FAR FROM HOME — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control… I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go." ~ Margaret Atwood ~… Continue reading FERRIS — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ~ Octavia E. Butler ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Dialogue is hard to write… Continue reading THE MONARCHS OF WINGHAVEN — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "When you first start writing -- and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers -- you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence right that minute it's never going to show up again. And it isn't. But it doesn't matter -- another one will, and… Continue reading THE SECRET LIBRARY — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Kathryn Craft at Writer Unboxed has a GREAT post HERE with 6 Novel Basics You May be… Continue reading TISH — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.”~ Philip Pullman ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: The last thing any of us needs is boring characters. HERE is a great post on Creative Writing Now with Story… Continue reading GOOD DIFFERENT — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it."~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Some people know that I am a bit of a grammar Nazi. There are so many rules, and I… Continue reading HOME AWAY FROM HOME — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Writing a novel is like a one-armed man trying to hammer together a chicken coop in a hurricane.”~ William Faulkner ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Marsh Cassady wrote a great article HERE for the Institute of Writing with 12 Writing Tips for Building Convincing Characters. I try really hard to… Continue reading THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT — Review & Giveaway
Rosi Hollinbeck 