“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: "It is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends upin need of major surgery. This is common in all writing and amongthe best of writers.”~ E.B. White ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I know some of my readers write picture books. I do. HERE is a great… Continue reading FIRST BOY — Review
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
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
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
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: “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
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
Thought for the Day: "Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.”~ Barbara Kingsolver ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: HERE is an interesting post by Jon Morrow from SmartBlogger about adding Power Words to your writing. Nathan Bransford's blog is always worth a look. HERE is a great… Continue reading FIFTH GRADE TOP DOGS — Review & Giveaway
