“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 a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon." ~ Ann Patchett ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Livia Blackburn wrote a good post HERE on A Brain Scientist’s Take on… Continue reading PLAGUE THIEVES — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Just because we are aware of the need for the inciting incident doesn't mean we shouldn't spend the time carefully crafting how we arrive at this point."~ Ran Walker ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Lying is on my mind these days as a certain candidate in the election goes on… Continue reading TREE. TABLE. BOOK. — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get."~ David Foster Wallace ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I don’t use a lot of flashbacks, and I haven’t… Continue reading WALTER STEPS UP TO THE PLATE — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Instead of waiting for inspiration to start writing, start writing to find inspiration.” ~ Robert Lee Brewer ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Jan Fields at the Institute for Writers always has good posts. HERE she gives us 4 Planning Tools to Use for Successful Revisions. Janice Hardy has a good… Continue reading THE BATBOY AND THE UNBREAKABLE RECORD — 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: “Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.”~ Denzel Washington ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I recognize some of my weaknesses as a writer,… Continue reading Northwind — Review
Thought for the Day: “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”~ Henry Ford ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Anne R. Allen has such an important post HERE on her blog. If you have ever thought of using a little snippet of a song lyric in one… Continue reading Dog Star — Review
Thought for the Day: "The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone."~ Donna Tartt ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Kris Maze… Continue reading I Survived The Galveston Hurricane 1900 — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Don’t get discouraged if you’re hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You’re allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once."~ Tana French ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends:… Continue reading Equal — Review
Thought for the Day: “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”~ W. Somerset Maugham ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: This is just for fun. Mental Floss has a terrific list HERE by Erin McCarthy of 56 Delightfully Unusual Words for Everyday Things. C’mon. Clinchpoop? Fimblefamble? Rechauffe?… Continue reading Soul Lanterns — Review
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