“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: "Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where, if you missed it by age 19, you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they… Continue reading HOW TO SAVE A LIBRARY — Review
Thought for the Day: "The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of… Continue reading INCREDIBLY PENELOPE — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt that you just kind of need to soldier on." ~ Anthony Doerr ~ Gifts for My… Continue reading BUSTED — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "I have rewritten–often several times–every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers." ~ Vladimir Nabokov ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Janice Hardy has a great Narrative Nugget HERE that will help you make your characters more well-rounded. Her articles are always worth your time. Do you have… Continue reading SPARK — Review & Giveaway
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Thought for the Day: "There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard."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: More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn’t say I have a talent that’s special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ~ John Irving ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I have been asked to… Continue reading PERSPECTIVE Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them. ~ Elie Wiesel ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends:… Continue reading WHAT HAPPENED THEN — Review
Thought for the Day: "A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our… Continue reading THE HONEST TRUTH — Review
Thought for the Day: I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times–once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. ~ Bernard Malamud ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Dialogue is so important to making… Continue reading THE BURNING SEASON — Review & Giveaway
Rosi Hollinbeck 