I’ve amassed a ridiculous number of online articles and tidbits on every sort of topic, from a single post on how to make a fairy garden to thousands of postings about how to write a novel. There are so many,…
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Last Friday Finds: Coolness from the Web
Tagged with: 5 Ingredient PB Cookies, Apache Helicopter vs Dragon, Artist Darren Carnall, Cream Biscuits, Dancing Baby Groot, Fiction University, Flog a Pro, Graham Storrs, IFL Science, Janice Hardy, Ostrich Pillow, Ray Rhamey, Scifaiku Poetry, top ten new species, Wendy Van Camp
Posted in Just Because, Last Friday Finds
Posted in Just Because, Last Friday Finds
Surrendering to the Magic
I’ve found that the magic of storytelling is in surrendering, not to anyone else’s notions, but to the words in my head. I believe this: my subconscious knows better than I how to tell a story… Sometimes the best writing…
Tagged with: Cara Lopez Lee, just write, magic in storytelling, storytelling, writing quotes, writing truths
Posted in Quotes
Posted in Quotes
We Write Our Own Truth
There is no formula and there is no right answer. That is the difficulty and the beauty of being a writer. We write to share our own version of the right answer. Our own unprovable truth. In writing (as author)…
Tagged with: Bill Kenower, courage to write, KL Wagoner, the write attitude, writing quotes, writing truths
Posted in Quotes
Posted in Quotes
The Book That Sparked My Love of Science Fiction
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne? The Time Machine by H.G. Wells? Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? All great books, but none of these classics was the first to take me away to another world. By 1967,…
Save Your World: Keep Reading
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~ Ray Bradbury
Tagged with: book burning, importance of reading, KL Wagoner, Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury Quote, writing quotes
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Posted in Quotes
A Word with Diana Gabaldon and George R. R. Martin
In May 2014, Albuquerque Public Library Foundation and Bookworks, a local independent bookstore, launched the author series “A Word with Writers” beginning with George R. R. Martin and Diana Gabaldon. Author Lorena Hughes attended the event at the KiMo Theater.…
Tagged with: Diana Gabaldon, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Lorena Hughes, Outlander, Outlander series
Posted in The Writing Life
Posted in The Writing Life
Creativity’s Enemy
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
The Benefits of a Genre-Specific Critique Group
If you’re blessed, as I am, to have some of the best critique partners…, you undoubtedly realize the benefit of having a watchful pair of eyes to run over your manuscripts, a merciless tongue to point out the weak points,…
The Write Attitude: Ray Bradbury
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~ Ray Bradbury
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