“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: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."~ E.B. White ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: It would be nice if we all had an unlimited travel budget, but most of us don’t. So how can we write about places… Continue reading THE INFINITE QUESTIONS OF DOTTIE BING — Review
Thought for the Day: "If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time." ~ Zadie Smith ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: HERE is another good grammar lesson from Writer’s Rumpus. We all want our action scenes to be sharp and… Continue reading RARE BIRDS — Review
Thought for the Day: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~ Winston Churchill ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: It is always a good idea to get new ideas about building characters. HERE on A Writer's Path, Georgio Konstandi has a good post on Creating that… Continue reading THE PRINCE OF THE STEEL PIER — Review
Thought for the Day: “You can’t fail if you don’t quit. You can’t succeed if you don’t start.”~ Michael Hyatt ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: We all get stuck in our writing sometimes. HERE is a great article by Susan Breen with 12 Techniques for Getting Un-stuck. There are so many mistakes we writers can… Continue reading Where the Water Takes Us — Review
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: “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: "I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read."~ Astrid Lindgren ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Nathan Bransford has some excellent suggestions HERE in his post How to Self-Edit Your Novel. Our characters have to… Continue reading Dogs Who Work: The Canines We Cannot Live Without — 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
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 