“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: "The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck." ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Janice Hardy at Fiction University always… Continue reading DEER RUN HOME — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”~ P.L. Travers ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Institute for Literature publishes a lot of good articles for writers. HERE is Susan Ludwig’s excellent take on Creating Character… Continue reading THE SECRET LIFE OF THE FOREST — Review
Thought for the Day: "The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." ~ Maya Angelou ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Showing our characters' emotions isn’t always easy to accomplish, but it’s critical. HERE is a good article from the… Continue reading GUT REACTION & HALF MOON SUMMER — Double Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out… Continue reading KEEPING PACE — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Instead of waiting for inspiration to start writing, start writing to find inspiration.” ~ Robert Lee Brewer ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Jan Fields at the Institute for Writers always has good posts. HERE she gives us 4 Planning Tools to Use for Successful Revisions. Janice Hardy has a good… Continue reading THE BATBOY AND THE UNBREAKABLE RECORD — REVIEW & GIVEAWAY
Thought for the Day: “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”~ Paulo Coelho ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: It’s important to know what drives our characters. HERE Barbara O’Neal writing for Writer Unboxed has a terrific post on The Wound and the Contradiction. Writers Helping Writers has a great post HERE by September… Continue reading OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS — Review
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: “Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”~ Barbara Kingsolver ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Jan Fields… Continue reading TENMILE — Review
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: "If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my… Continue reading HAZEL HILL IS GONNA WIN THIS ONE — Review
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