“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: “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: “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ~ William Faulkner ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: As I've mentioned here, I am working hard at trying to cut words from my… Continue reading ATLAS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS — Review
Thought for the Day: “Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.”~ Salvador Dalí ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Do you ever feel like some of your scenes are just flat? HERE is a great post by Lisa Hall-Wilson that will help you bring those dead scenes back to life. I don't do writing… Continue reading DINOSAURS: EXPLORING PREHISTORIC LIFE AND GEOLOGICAL TIME — Review
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: "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: "Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it." ~ Elizabeth George ~… Continue reading OOH LA LA! KIDS COOK FRENCH — Review
Thought for the Day: "Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out." ~ Kurt Vonnegut ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Fidgeting is a character… Continue reading RISK, RESILIENCE, and REDEMPTION — Review & Giveaway
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 