Quotes

Take me to the river

"You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug." -- Suzanne Collins Thank you? Do you have any characters that people will LOVE to HATE in your manuscript? To REALLY give your main character depth, don't be afraid to stank them up a bit. No one is perfect after all. XOXO

Pictures worth a thousand words, Quotes

A writer is a gardner

  The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook:  his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare My inner… Continue reading A writer is a gardner

Getting Started, Inspiration, Pictures worth a thousand words, Quotes

Write every single day of your life

  "You must write every single day of your life…You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads….may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world." — Ray Bradbury… Continue reading Write every single day of your life

Inspiration, Quotes

To love…

  "We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love." -Tim Farrington I… Continue reading To love…

Inspiration, Pictures worth a thousand words, Quotes, Twitter, Writing

Flowers, flowers everywhere!

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."-Iris Murdoch "For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.  Bricks to all greenhouses!  Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"-Edward Abbey

Andie Adams, Characters, Liquid Relief, Pictures worth a thousand words, Wine

Everything’s better with wine

I think one should always reward themselves after a long day of writing with a chilled glass of liquid relief. Enjoy some pictures of my guilty pleasure. Have a wine filled wonderful weekend! This is dedicated to the main character Andie and her affinity for all things that come in a bottle. "Wine is sunlight,… Continue reading Everything’s better with wine