To everyone who is working on various writing projects, believe in yourself and your work.
Most importantly though–keep on writing!
Remember: you are a writer, and you can do this!
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A Wonderful Review of Maledicus: The Investigative Paranormal Society, Book 1
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Gallows Hill can be found here in ebook.
Gallows Hill in paperback can be found here.
An interview about Gallows Hill can be found here.
Please follow the following links to find my novel:
Thank you!
The book trailer:
Maledicus:Investigative Paranormal Society Book I
My radio interview:
Who Are Some of Your Favorite Victorian Writers?
StandardIn the next entry in my series on favorite writers, I want to consider Victorian authors, with a time period defined as the time of Queen Victoria’s reign–1837-1901. This period has been filled with many excellent writers, and I will focus on only a few as my choices. I could, however, easily expand my list.
Without further discussion, here are three of my favorite Victorian writers:
Charles Dickens
Dickens was an extraordinary success, both as a popular writer and with critics. His work is part of the body of literature, and he has touched much of the population of the world. Among his most important and well-known pieces are A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.
Thomas Hardy
He achieved much in fewer novels than Dickens. Among his novels are Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and Far From The Madding Crowd.
Emily Bronte
While writing only one novel, her extraordinary Gothic piece, Wuthering Heights, places her among the great Gothic writers.
So, I ask all of you, who are some of your favorite Victorian writers?
National Library Week!
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What is one of the places in most communities where people can go to find information, use computers, talk to other people, and most importantly, read books for free? Your public library is a wonderful and important resource.
I have loved libraries since I was a child; I remember going to the branch library in my town with my mother and siblings. I thought it was such a large and magical place. This library was actually a fairly small building, but the magic inside was enormous, and that was the magic of books and reading! That small, local branch library begin my life long love of libraries.
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Some of the institutions are magnificent city libraries, and some are small, but they are all important. Whether in a metropolis like New York City or a tiny town of 500, these treasure troves of knowledge and books all serve the people who use them.
Please support your local libraries!
Quotations on Music
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“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
Albert Einstein
“If music be the food of love, play on . . .”
William Shakespeare
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
A Major Revision Change In My Fantasy Novel in Progress
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As I was in bed last night, beginning to fall asleep, I suddenly had a fire of understanding about my fantasy novel, which is now near the completion of its second draft. I was very tired and did not want to get up, but I have learned never to ignore such realizations. If I do not at least jot down a few sentences, the new comprehension would be gone in the morning.
This nocturnal understanding will certainly set up the work for the third draft of this work in progress. The setting is now completely different from what it had been, and the basis for the major characters became clarified. I now understand why they are doing what they are doing, and what the foundations of their relationships.
Now, it is time to get started on draft # 3!
Have any of you had such late night sudden writing understandings?
Gallows Hill can be found here in ebook.
Gallows Hill in paperback can be found here.
An interview about Gallows Hill can be found here.
Please follow the following links to find my novel:
Thank you!
The book trailer:
Maledicus:Investigative Paranormal Society Book I
My radio interview:
Who Are Some of Your Favorite Painters?
StandardI have been creating a series of posts about favorite writers in a variety of categories, and I wanted to expand to considering other art forms. With this idea in mind, I want to consider favorite painters. I have loved and studied art history as an interest throughout my life, so I want to explore what painters others like.
For this post, I will include
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
and
Vincent Van Gogh
I ask all of you: who are some of your favorite painters?
