Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Writing Quote Tuesday
Love this week’s quote, from Neil Gaiman:
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This is what happens when I get up to go to the bathroom…
Confessions of an Early Christmas Celebrator
Hello. My name is Nicole, and I love Christmas.
Whew! That wasn’t so hard. And why should it be? Christmas is FUN for crying out loud. I get ridiculously excited every year when our local radio station starts playing all holiday music all the time. I leave my radio tuned to that station from they day they start until the day they stop. (And it’s always too soon when they stop! Everyone knows it’s still Christmas until the twelfth day!) Continue reading
Writing Quote Tuesday
Hello friends! This week’s quote comes from the enigmatic Harper Lee:
“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”
—Harper Lee, WD
True indeed!
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Yes, Inigo Montoya. Yes.
Writing Quote Tuesday
And because my daughters and I are completely enraptured by A Wrinkle in Time at the moment, today’s quote comes from the great Madeleine L’Engle:
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L’Engle
Beautiful!
Long Live the Typo That Makes Me Laugh!
Writers can be pretty critical when it comes to, well, writing. I’ve been a member of several writing communities, and one thing is always certain. If you get enough writers in a room (real or virtual), someone will have a story about a writing error they’ve come across that bugs them bad enough to spit slugs. (That’s not a real thing. Just my attempt at avoiding a cliche.)
Don’t get me wrong. I am one of those writers. Sometimes I complain to my non-writerly friends about some gawd-awful passage I’ve read in a New York Times bestseller. “How does this person have a publisher? And so many readers? She can’t even put a coherent sentence together!” And my friends just shrug at me. “Uh…sorry?” Yes, I know. Only the writers get it. Grammar, usage, diction, voice, style that breaks all these rules for all the right reasons…these things are IMPORTANT, darn it! Continue reading
Photo Friday
Hello friends! I’m starting a new blog feature this week called “Photo Friday.” Basically, I’ll just post a photo that I’d like to share with you. It may or may not be a photo that I snapped myself. I hope you enjoy!
This is my sweet and crazy Boston Terrier, Lucy. This photo was taken in 2006 when she was only a few weeks old and she still had floppy ears. Who couldn’t love that face?
Writing Quote Tuesday
Today’s quote comes from the great Oscar Wilde:
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I doubt if anyone could have said it better!
