Today’s quote comes from Isabel Allende:
“I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.”
—Isabel Allende
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Writing Quote Tuesday
This week’s quote comes from Raymond Chandler:
“The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.”
—Raymond Chandler
Yes! I think that is the ultimate goal.
Writing Quote Tuesday
Happy Tuesday! This week’s quote comes from William Shakespeare:
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
– William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Writing Quote Tuesday
I’m Baaaaaack!!
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Wow, have I been gone a while! If you’re a regular blog follower, you may have noticed that I seemed to have disappeared for a couple months. Well, there’s a good reason for that. I had a baby! 
Two months ago, my family welcomed our newest member, little Gianni. This is me and my little cone head on our big day. I never mentioned that I was pregnant because I figured, Continue reading
Writing Quote Tuesday
This week’s quote comes from Maya Angelou. Love this one.
Image courtesy poetryfoundation.org.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
-Maya Angelou
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
My New Year’s Writing Resolutions
I’ve actually never written New Year’s Resolutions before, but I do like setting concrete goals, so I thought I’d give it a try this year. Here are a few things I hope to accomplish this year with my writing: Continue reading
