“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: "A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it." ~ William Styron ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: We often hear about keeping up the tension and ramping up the conflict, but how often do we hear about… Continue reading FREAK THE MIGHTY & THE BIG DARK — Double Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.”~ Duke Ellington ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Kill Zone is a blog with eleven writers in the thriller genre. But even if you aren’t writing thrillers, they have some great posts. HERE is a post by Dale Ivan Smith… Continue reading UNSTUCK — Review
Thought for the Day: "The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." ~ Maya Angelou ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Showing our characters' emotions isn’t always easy to accomplish, but it’s critical. HERE is a good article from the… Continue reading GUT REACTION & HALF MOON SUMMER — Double Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out… Continue reading KEEPING PACE — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do." ~ Jhumpa Lahiri ~ Gifts for My Writer… Continue reading STONES AND BONES: FOSSILS AND THE STORIES THEY TELL — Review
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: "There are two reasons I support mistake-making. First, we know that failure means we tried. It also means if the mistake is wrong enough, we can make someone laugh." ~ Jorjeana Marie ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writing good dialogue is a real art. I am always on the lookout… Continue reading WHAT GOES ON INSIDE A BEAVER POND? — Review
Thought for the Day: "I don’t like to write, but I take great pleasure in having written – in having finally made an arrangement that has a certain inevitability, like the solution to a mathematical problem. Perhaps in no other line of work is delayed gratification so delayed." ~ William Zinsser ~ Gifts for… Continue reading THE ENIGMA GIRLS: HOW TEN TEENAGERS BROKE CIPHERS, KEPT SECRETS, AND HELPED WIN WORLD WAR II — Review
Thought for the Day: “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”~ Paulo Coelho ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: It’s important to know what drives our characters. HERE Barbara O’Neal writing for Writer Unboxed has a terrific post on The Wound and the Contradiction. Writers Helping Writers has a great post HERE by September… Continue reading OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS — Review
Rosi Hollinbeck 