Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “One Writer’s Journal”
You never say never. There’s always a chance to do things in the future. ~Nick Cummins Have you ever said you are never going to do something and then never shows up and pokes fun at you? I’m not sure I ever actually thought never but close to it. But wait, let me start at the starting point. Last post …
Write what you know. The above advice is attributed to Mark Twain. At least he may have been the first person to actually write it down when someone asked him how to become a writer. It could be that someone once told him the same thing when he was a young writer. He followed that advice and wrote about the …
When we’re going through a rough patch, if we stay centered and stay out of fear, we can come out on the other side wiser, stronger and better. ~Joan Pillen Thanks to those of you hanging in here with me as I share my memories while I keep traveling down my writing road on my journey. Last post, I shared …
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 …