Thought for the Day: "The one thing I've learned is that you have to steer a project in the direction of the maximum fun for you." ~ George Saunders ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Parker Peevyhouse writing for The Writer’s Attic has a great post HERE called "My spine pressed into my throat." Please… Continue reading Gary D. Schmidt for Younger Readers — Reviews
Tag: middle-grade
THE SIN EATER — Review
Thought for the Day: “I try to leave out the parts people skip.”~ Elmore Leonard ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Is your plot looking like Swiss cheese? Plot holes will trip your readers up and ruin the experience for them. HERE is an excellent post from K. M. Weiland with Four Questions to Prevent… Continue reading THE SIN EATER — Review
THE SUMMER SCRAPBOOK — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “When I’m writing the first draft, I’m constantly reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box, so that later I can go back and build castles.”~ Jordan Peele ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Queries can't be avoided if you want to be published, but writing them can be… Continue reading THE SUMMER SCRAPBOOK — Review & Giveaway
A DAY AT THE BEACH — Review
Thought for the Day: There is not an idea that cannot be expressed in 200 words. But the writer must know precisely what he wants to say. If you have nothing to say and want badly to say it, then all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice.” ~ Eric Hoffer ~ Gifts for… Continue reading A DAY AT THE BEACH — Review
CONFESSIONS OF A MANGO — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”~ Jack Kerouac ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I wrote on here recently I didn’t see many posts about book endings, so, of course, there was one this week from K. M Weiland HERE called The Psychology of… Continue reading CONFESSIONS OF A MANGO — Review & Giveaway
JUST LIKE THAT — 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
JUPITER RISING — Review
Thought for the Day: “Being a writer is a very particular sort of job: It’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”~ Neil Gaiman ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Voice, voice, voice. Any writer who has watched a webinar or… Continue reading JUPITER RISING — Review
BIG DIGS: AMAZING UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTIONS — Review
Thought for the Day: “Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.”[“Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.”]~ Antonio Machado ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Laura Lyndhurst, writing for The Story Empire Blog, has an interesting post HERE called Size Matters and discusses book lengths. This is… Continue reading BIG DIGS: AMAZING UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTIONS — Review
GLORY BE — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up." ~ Margaret Atwood ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Creative Penn has a wonderful article on verbs HERE, or you can listen to the podcast of it. It’s… Continue reading GLORY BE — Review & Giveaway
HOW THEY CROAKED: THE AWFUL ENDS OF THE AWFULLY FAMOUS — Review
Thought for the Day: "When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop…even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it." ~ Jodi Picoult ~ Gifts for My… Continue reading HOW THEY CROAKED: THE AWFUL ENDS OF THE AWFULLY FAMOUS — Review
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