“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: “Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.”~ Barbara Kingsolver ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Kristen Lamb has one of my favorite writing blogs, although I get her posts rather irregularly. I don't know… Continue reading MARA’S STORIES: GLIMMERS IN THE DARKNESS — Review
Thought for the Day: “Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called ‘mad’ and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called ‘writers,’ and they do pretty much the same thing.”~ Ray Bradbury ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Tension on… Continue reading THE WEDNESDAY WARS — Review
Thought for the Day: "I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up." ~ Joyce Carol Oates ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Sarah L. Kaufman has a terrific article from Writer’s Digest HERE that will help you jazz up your writing by zhuzhing… Continue reading LIZZIE BRIGHT AND THE BUCKMINSTER BOY — Review
Thought for the Day: “Read, read, read. Read everything— trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it, just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.”~ William Faulkner… Continue reading ANSON’S WAY — Review
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 ~ Gifts… Continue reading JUST LIKE THAT — Review
Thought for the Day: “Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.”~ Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I can never get enough about query letters. If I see an article or post on… Continue reading RISE OF THE SPIDER — Review
Thought for the Day: “I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of… Continue reading WILD MOUNTAIN IVY — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for… Continue reading THE VANISHING OF LAKE PEIGNEUR — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Imagine tension like holding a reader’s feet under water; you don’t want to pull them down until they drown. You have to let them come up for air.”~ Lauren Magaziner ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Sarah (Sally) Hamer has a wonderful post HERE on Writers in the Storm about How… Continue reading THE BLOSSOMING SUMMER — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.” ~Thomas Hardy ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Every once in a while, I struggle through reading a book that has an unlikeable character at the center… Continue reading THE ACCIDENTAL STOWAWAY — Review & Giveaway
