And then there were two! When you find the end of one story, then it’s time to move on to the next story. That’s what I did. You already know that The Forbidden Yearning was actually the third novel I wrote, just the first one to find a publisher. Shamrocks, my working title for the first book I wrote and my cattle …
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. – Bo Bennett If you read my last post, you know that I shared about a rejection that hit me hard just when I thought I might be moving toward success. Isn’t that the way of it sometimes? Just when you think things are going …
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” ― Ovid Persistence. Perseverance. Those two words had to be the ones I needed most along my writing journey. I could believe I had some talent at putting words together. I could string enough together to make a story. I had even managed to string 70,000 or so words …
“Butterflies are nature’s angels. They remind us what a gift it is to be alive.” — Robyn Nola When you see a butterfly floating past you on a summer breeze, are you amazed at the beauty of our world? We rush through our days and then are stopped for a moment and reminded of peace at the sight of a …
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…” -Albert Einstein Some give credit for this quote to Thomas Edison instead of Albert Einstein. I’m not entering that argument, but I did come across the quote when I was working hard to write stories that editors would like enough to publish. As I said in my last post, I had done all the assignments for …
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. ― Louis L’Amour Last post I shared my first sale. It wasn’t exactly the first thing I had gotten for writing. When I was in sixth grade I wrote an essay about wanting to raise chickens and won 100 chicks. When I was in 8th grade …
If you’ve been reading about my writing beginnings and subsequent journey, you know that I had the writing dream as a preteen and that I just kept on dreaming through my teen years and even after I got married and had two babies. If you missed the earlier posts, the links are at the bottom of this post. In …
“Life’s a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don’t worry about what you don’t know.” —John Michael Montgomery My granddaughter got married this weekend. I didn’t get a good picture of her and her groom on the wedding day, but here’s one at the rehearsal. The photographer took scads of pictures. I’ve seen some …
Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super food. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients – they are among the best foods you can eat. ~Joel Fuhrman Have you ever been blackberry picking? Not in a nicely mowed around tame blackberry patch but a wild blackberry patch out in the woods and fields of …
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. —Elizabeth Hardwick What a great weekend at the Columbus Book Festival. If you ever get the chance to go to this festival, you should go. That is obviously a message many readers and writers who live close to Columbus, Ohio, are ready to embrace. Thousands of people showed up for their third …