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Haiku Friday – Cake & Wolf

Happy Haiku Friday Everyone!

Ronovan from Ronovan Writes provided this week’s prompt words, Cake and Wolf. Ronovan is a writer and poet and he also does author interviews and much more. You can read some of his poetry and fiction pieces on his blog. He also hosts RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday. Anyone can participate. Check out his Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.

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Broken Heart Syndrome

by Vashti Quiroz-Vega

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Wolf Dressed as a man
Devoured her dainty heart
Hollow flesh remains

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Illustration by Veronnikka (J.W.) – DeviantART

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Have a fun and safe weekend! ♥

Tagged: broken heart, haiku, haiku friday, poetry, RonovanWrites, The Writer Next Door, Veronnikka

Writer’s Quote Wednesday – Comfort during the Holidays

Hello everyone! Welcome. :D

Colleen Chesebro is a writer, poet, and book reviewer. She hosts an inspiring event every Wednesday on her blog, Silver Threading, called Writer’s Quote Wednesday. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer and posting it on your blog. Check out her weekly wrap-up every Tuesday and be inspired by all the quotes.

Ronovan, from Ronovan Writes and Colleen have joined forces! He has been linking his #BeWoW blog share (Be Wonderful on Wednesday) now to include: Be Writing on Wednesday. If you would like to combine both posts feel free to do so and link them to Colleen’s post. She will make sure and add you to the quote wrap-up she does each Tuesday. Please make sure and check out Ron’s blog for more writing inspiration and motivation!

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Quote by Helen Keller

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Have a wonderful week everyone. Happy Holidays!
Tagged: #BEWOW, holiday, Holidays, quotes, Silver Threading, The Writer Next Door, Writers Quote Wednesday

Haiku Friday – Black & White

Happy Haiku Friday everyone!

 

Ronovan from Ronovan Writes provided this week’s prompt words, Black and White. Ronovan is a writer and poet and he also does author interviews and much more. You can read some of his poetry and fiction pieces on his blog. He also hosts RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday. Anyone can participate. Check out his Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.

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If a panther leaves its footprints in the snow, would a hunter know upon finding them whether the animal was black or white?

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Black & White

by Vashti Quiroz-Vega

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Dark roar, white ripples
Man speaks in black and white
Nature is color blind

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When a crocodile swims in a river the ripples created are the same whether the reptile is black or white.

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Have a great weekend!

Tagged: black and white, haiku, haiku friday, nature, poetry, RonovanWrites, The Writer Next Door

Writer’s Quote Wednesday – The Spirit of Christmas

 

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Hello everyone! Welcome. :D Colleen Chesebro is a writer, poet, and book reviewer. She hosts an inspiring event every Wednesday on her blog, Silver Threading, called Writer’s Quote Wednesday. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer and posting it on your blog. Check out her weekly wrap-up every Tuesday and be inspired by all the quotes.

Ronovan, from Ronovan Writes and Colleen have joined forces! He has been linking his #BeWoW blog share (Be Wonderful on Wednesday) now to include: Be Writing on Wednesday. If you would like to combine both posts feel free to do so and link them to Colleen’s post. She will make sure and add you to the quote wrap-up she does each Tuesday. Please make sure and check out Ron’s blog for more writing inspiration and motivation!

This year, since we have 5 Wednesdays in December, let’s celebrate each Writer’s Quote Wednesday week by finding quotes from authors about Christmas.

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I love the Christmas holiday because of the way it makes me feel. Most people around me seem to be more charitable, patient, tolerant, and empathetic during this time of year. There’s a spirit of generosity and goodwill in the air. There are twinkly lights and colorful decorations everywhere you look. That part of you that sings, laughs out loud, makes you smile for no reason, giggle at the silliest things, and allows you take things in stride––comes alive. Suddenly, you don’t sweat the small stuff and you look forward to tomorrow with hope. I wish the spirit of Christmas could linger all year long.

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Christmas in Miami ;)

Tagged: Christmas, Christmas spirit, Miami, quotes, Silver Threading, The Writer Next Door, Writers Quote Wednesday

Haiku Friday – Life & Give

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog!

 

Ronovan from Ronovan Writes provided this week’s prompt words, Life and Give. Ronovan is a writer and poet and he also does author interviews and much more. You can read some of his poetry and fiction pieces on his blog. He also hosts RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday. Anyone can participate. Check out his Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.

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Illustration by Luis Royo

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Passion in the Garden of Eden

by Vashti Quiroz-Vega

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Give in to banned love?
“My life for a glimpse of you”
His rhetoric wins

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Have a great Friday and weekend everyone! :D

 

Tagged: Garden of Eden, haiku, haiku friday, Love, poetry, RonovanWrites, The Writer Next Door

Writer’s Quote Wednesday – Writing Without Rules

Welcome to my blog. Colleen Chesebro is a writer, poet, and book reviewer. She hosts an inspiring event every Wednesday on her blog, Silver Threading, called Writer’s Quote Wednesday. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer and posting it on your blog. Check out her weekly wrap-up every Tuesday and be inspired by all the quotes.

Ronovan, from Ronovan Writes and Colleen have joined forces! He has been linking his #BeWoW blog share (Be Wonderful on Wednesday) now to include: Be Writing on Wednesday. If you would like to combine both posts feel free to do so and link them to Colleen’s post. She will make sure and add you to the quote wrap-up she does each Tuesday. Please make sure and check out Ron’s blog for more writing inspiration and motivation!

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 Writing style like any other type of style helps writers express who they are. A style reveals both the writer’s personality and voice. That being said, I must admit that I am a bit of a literary rebel. I’ve read many books about the rules of writing, grammar, and punctuation but when I sit down to write, all the rules go out the window. I love learning new things and I’m constantly trying to improve my writing. You can say I’m an avid reader and professional student. I do respect most of the laws of writing but I write as the words flow out of my mind and worry about editing later after my thoughts are expressed. I’m not going to worry about some over-the-top grammarians and I’m going to go ahead and split that infinitive, end a few sentences with propositions (It’s not even clear how never-end-a-sentence-with-a-preposition got to be a rule), I will use sentence fragments (sparingly), and if I’m inspired to write a one sentence paragraph––I shall have no fear. I have lost count of how many amazing books I’ve read, written by writers well known for being great, that break these rules (and more). In all cases, editing comes after my first draft is written. I believe this guarantees my writing is authentic and influenced only by my muse.

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Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Tagged: quotes, Silver Threading, The Writer Next Door, writer, Writers Quote Wednesday, writing

Haiku Friday – Cover & Color

Ronovan from Ronovan Writes provided this week’s prompt words, Cover and Color. Ronovan is a writer and poet and he also does author interviews and much more. You can read some of his poetry and fiction pieces on his blog. He also hosts RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday. Anyone can participate. Check out his Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.

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Beloved

by Vashti Quiroz-Vega

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In the cover of night
Passion peaks when pink winks
 Lovers embrace fire

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Have a great weekend everyone! ;)
Tagged: color, cover, haiku, haiku friday, Lovers, night, poetry, RonovanWrites, The Writer Next Door

Writer’s Quote Wednesday – Become a better writer

It’s Writer’s Quote Wednesday! I hope everyone is doing well. 

 

Welcome to my blog. Colleen Chesebro is a writer, poet, and book reviewer. She hosts an inspiring event every Wednesday on her blog, Silver Threading, called Writer’s Quote Wednesday. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer and posting it on your blog. Check out her weekly wrap-up every Tuesday and be inspired by all the quotes.

Ronovan, from Ronovan Writes and Colleen have joined forces! He has been linking his #BeWoW blog share (Be Wonderful on Wednesday) now to include: Be Writing on Wednesday. If you would like to combine both posts feel free to do so and link them to Colleen’s post. She will make sure and add you to the quote wrap-up she does each Tuesday. Please make sure and check out Ron’s blog for more writing inspiration and motivation!

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“We write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. Manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. We plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. We write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. This is who we are.”

― Tahereh Mafi

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There’s no better advice for writers and I’ll add read, read, read––a lot. ;)

Tagged: #BEWOW, RonovanWrites, Silver Threading, The Writer Next Door, write, writer, Writers Quote Wednesday

Haiku Friday – Crane & Gold

Happy Haiku Friday!

Ronovan from Ronovan Writes provided this week’s prompt words, Crane and Gold. Ronovan is a writer and poet and he also does author interviews and much more. You can read some of his poetry and fiction pieces on his blog. He also hosts RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday. Anyone can participate. Check out his Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.

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The Pyramids of Egypt

by Vashti Quiroz-Vega

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The sky’s the limit
Pyramids with gold points soar
Raised by human cranes

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The great pyramid
Exact in all details
Alien design?

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Have a great weekend everyone! :D

Tagged: aliens, Egypt, haiku, haiku friday, poetry, pyramids, RonovanWrites, The Writer Next Door

Writer’s Quote Wednesday – Read A Book

Happy Wednesday everyone! Welcome to my blog. Colleen Chesebro is a writer, poet, and book reviewer. She hosts an inspiring event every Wednesday on her blog, Silver Threading, called Writer’s Quote Wednesday. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer and posting it on your blog. Check out her weekly wrap-up every Tuesday and be inspired by all the quotes.

Ronovan, from Ronovan Writes and Colleen have joined forces! He has been linking his #BeWoW blog share (Be Wonderful on Wednesday) now to include: Be Writing on Wednesday. If you would like to combine both posts feel free to do so and link them to Colleen’s post. She will make sure and add you to the quote wrap-up she does each Tuesday. Please make sure and check out Ron’s blog for more writing inspiration and motivation!

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Illustration by Luis Royo

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A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

–Neil Gaiman

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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

–W. Somerset Maugham

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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

–William Styron

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

–Haruki Murakami

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Illustration by Luis Royo

Tagged: author quotes, Books, quotes, read, Silver Threading, the fall of lilith, The Writer Next Door, Writers Quote Wednesday