“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: "I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing." ~Ann Patchett~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: It's tempting to use flashbacks to solve writing problems, but you have to do them right. HERE is a great post from K. M. Allan with Flashbacks: Dos and Don’ts. As writers,… Continue reading SCHOOLED — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard." ~ Gillian Flynn ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Becca Puglisi has a wonderful post HERE on Writers in the Storm for those who choose to write from more than one viewpoint. I can't… Continue reading LOST EVANGELINE — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing. ~ Richard North Patterson ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Good posts… Continue reading ORRIS AND TIMBLE LOST AND FOUND & MERCY WATSON IS MISSING! — Reviews
Thought for the Day: "Never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things—childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves—that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers." ~ Salman Rushdie ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Many years ago, I was in… Continue reading THE HOTEL BALZAAR — Review
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: "'I don't know where to start,' one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O'Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the… Continue reading THE PUPPETS OF SPELHORST — Review
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: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”~ J. K. Rowling ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Siblings are often a big part of middle-grade fiction, so… Continue reading MERCY WATSON IS MISSING — Review
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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