“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: "You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart -- your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were… Continue reading HANGABOUT: FAR FROM HOME — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "'I don't know where to start,' one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O'Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the… Continue reading THE PUPPETS OF SPELHORST — Review
Thought for the Day: “Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”~ Brenda Ueland ~… Continue reading ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! REVISED AND EXPANDED: A HISTORY OF EARTH, DINOSAURS, RULERS, ROBOTS, AND OTHER THINGS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION — Review
Thought for the Day: “Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Kathryn Craft at Writer Unboxed has a GREAT post HERE with 6 Novel Basics You May be… Continue reading TISH — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “When I’m writing, I’m waiting to see somebody, and I’m waiting to hear them. It’s almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”~ Charles Baxter ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Jen Craven has written an interesting article for Writer’s Digest we should all find helpful… Continue reading FORGET-ME-NOT BLUE — Review
Thought for the Day: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”~ J. K. Rowling ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Siblings are often a big part of middle-grade fiction, so… Continue reading MERCY WATSON IS MISSING — Review
Thought for the Day: You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.~ James… Continue reading CALL THE PUFFINS! — Review
Thought for the Day: “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”~ Louisa May Alcott ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: We often hear editors, agents, and instructors talk… Continue reading KIDS CAN COOK ANYTHING! — Review
Thought for the Day: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."~ E.B. White ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: It would be nice if we all had an unlimited travel budget, but most of us don’t. So how can we write about places… Continue reading THE INFINITE QUESTIONS OF DOTTIE BING — Review
Thought for the Day: "I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read."~ Astrid Lindgren ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Nathan Bransford has some excellent suggestions HERE in his post How to Self-Edit Your Novel. Our characters have to… Continue reading Dogs Who Work: The Canines We Cannot Live Without — Review
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