“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: "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." ~ Pablo Picasso ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Characters just cannot be boring if you intend to keep readers engaged. HERE Amy Wilson has a really good (and fun!) post on Boring Characters at Good Story Company.… Continue reading WHEN SEA BECOMES SKY — Review
Thought for the Day: “Poems are short storieswith punctuation disorders”~ Tom Cassidy ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Every novel is made up of a lot of scenes, and we want our scenes to be strong and sharp. HERE K. M. Weiland has a great post on scenes: An Intuitive 4-Step Process for Creating Vibrant Scene Structure.… Continue reading BEHOLD OUR MAGICAL GARDEN: POEMS FRESH FROM A SCHOOL GARDEN and COUNTING IN DOG YEARS AND OTHER SASSY MATH POEMS — Reviews
Thought for the Day: “When it comes to people - don’t write about who you know, but what you know of human nature.”~ Candace Bushnell ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: In my early days of writing, I formed a critique group. One of the writers insisted that all writing had to be in a… Continue reading ARTEMIS SPARKE AND THE SOUND SEEKERS BRIGADE — Review
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
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