Link to "Fighting the Current"

7/23/2013

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My first novel, Fighting the Current, is now available at

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3P0T8G

This novel means a lot to me. As I wrote, I felt my characters come to life. They are a part of me and I will never forget them. 

Writing a book is a challenge. Sharing with the world and having the courage to face criticism, rejection, and any other negativity is a challenge on a whole other level. I never realized the strength I would need to go ahead and share something so personal and precious to me. 

I hope you check it out and enjoy. 

Keep writing and dreaming!

Thank you.
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Quotes For Thought....

7/17/2013

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I try to leave out the parts that people skip.  
~Elmore Leonard





If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.  
~Toni Morrison

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. 
~William Wordsworth

Writing, I think, is not apart from living.  Writing is a kind of double living.  The writer experiences everything twice.  Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.  
~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957

Do not put statements in the negative form.

And don't start sentences with a conjunction.

If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
 great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
 
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.

De-accession euphemisms.

If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.

Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

~William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.
~Margaret Atwood

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